理查·克里斯多福·卡林頓(英語:Richard Christopher Carrington,1826年5月26日-1875年11月27日)是一位英國的業餘天文學家,他在1859年的天文觀測証明太陽閃焰的存在,並且建議對地球的極光和電器有所影響;而他在1863年的觀測記錄的太陽黑子顯示太陽的較差自轉。
Carrington, Richard Christopher, Catalogue of 3735 Circumpolar Stars, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1857
Carrington, R. C., Description of a Singular Appearance seen in the Sun on September 1, 1859, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1859, 20: 13–15, Bibcode:1859MNRAS..20...13C
Carrington, Richard Christopher, Observations of the Spots on the Sun from 1853 to 1861 (1863) Williams and Norgate
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Ashbrook, Joseph, Richard Carrington and a "singular appearance" on the Sun, The Astronomical Scrapbook, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Sky Publishing Corporation: 340–344, 1984, ISBN 0-933346-24-7 - Originally published in the July, 1960 issue of Sky & Telescope
Clark, Stuart, The Sun Kings: The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007, ISBN 0691126607
Clark, Stuart, Astronomical fire: Richard Carrington and the solar flare of 1859, Endeavour, 2007, 31 (3): 104–92007 September, PMID 17764743, doi:10.1016/j.endeavour.2007.07.004请检查|publication-date=中的日期值 (帮助)
Franzel, T. G., The Strange and Checkered Career of Carrington's Law: A Century and a Half of Solar Modeling, Physics Essays, 1999, 12 (3): 531–569, Bibcode:1999PhyEs..12..531F, doi:10.4006/1.3025412
Pang, Alex Soojung, Sunspotting, American Scientist, 2007, 95 (Nov–Dec): 538–540 [2012-03-18], (原始内容存档于2017-03-05)
Richard Christopher Carrington, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1876, 36: 137–142, Bibcode:1876MNRAS..36..137. - an obituary