


A CATALOGUE OF OBSERVATIONS OF LUMINOUS METEORS. 15 






Date. Description. Place. Observer. Reference. 


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Alfred H, Lowe, 
Esq. 
Ibid. 

Sussex. 
blue, then fiery red, emitting 
sparks, continued for 1 or 2 
seconds, and disappeared, 
leaving a blue mark yisible 
for many seconds, from Altair 
perpendicularly down. Seen 
also at Fecamp, in France, like 
a globe of fire emitting sparks. 
Soon after a small falling star|Ibid..........000(Td.  ccccccecesssece Ibid. 
moved in the same path. [Nottingham 
Ghesvsss 12 30™. A few falling stars ... Highfield Ho., E. J. Lowe, Esq. MS. commun. 
to aa 6550" p.m. A small luminous|Pisa .......... eld. Irving, Esq.... Letter to Prof. 
ball from N.W. to S.E. ; dis- Powell, in Ap- 
sipated “before reaching the pendix, No. 7. 
horizon. 
2 |G aa 125, One from x Draconis to Highfield Ho., E. J. Lowe, Esq. MS. Communica- 
midway between 0 and ¢ Nottingham 
Urs. Maj. 
24 .,....,115 18". A caudate meteor=|Ibid............. Id. 
1st mag. ; slowly down from 
3° E. of y Urs. Maj. to 
Urs. Maj. 
Oct. 5 .....,/11427™ p.m. Smallmeteor, from|Ibid.,.....++++++|Td. 
a Pegasi through Cassiopeia. 
11 33". Do. with many red|[bid..........+{Td. ..c.sseeeeeeees(Lbide 
sparks ; from 5° below Ca- 
pella; moved 1° and disap- 
peared. 
18 .,....{10" 46". During a magnificent|[bid..,......++++|Td, 
aurora, afine caudate meteor 
fell through Pegasus Square. 
Several falling stars. 
19 .,..,./8". One, from 1° below » Her- 
culis, horizontally to 1° above 
s Herculis. ’ 
21 ,,....{114 11". One from between thelIbid.,.....-.066(Td.  .ssssesseseaees( Lid 
Pointers to y Urs. Maj. 
22 ......|Many; one at 84 50™=I1st mag.|Ibid....,..y.+..-(Id. 
fell through the Wagon in 
Urs. Maj. 
27 ......{10" 30". Large and brilliant, 
through Aldebaran down to 
Betelgeuse. Many others. 
84 p.m. Large and white, with|Oxford.........(Mr,G. A, Rowell./Verbal Statement 
a train; =Venus; passed to Prof. Powell. 
through Taurus in a line 
parallel to Aldebaran, and 
the two adjacent stars, and 
disappeared at a distance 
beyond Aldebaran, nearly = 
that of Aldebaran from the 
next star; at the same time 
a bright aurora*, 
















































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 Nore.—1848, Sept. 4.—The meteor seen at Nottingham was probably the same with that seen 
at Worthing and Fecamp; the stars » Antinoi, Altair (# Aquilz), and a Sagittarii, all lying not 
| much out of the same line, passing down to the horizon at the time. 
__-* See also Phil. Mag. Dec. 1848, calculation by Sir J. Lubbock, and Phil. Mag. March 1849. 
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