REPORT — 1851. 



f 



Date. 



Hour. 



Appearance or 

 magnitude. 



Brightness 

 and colour. 



Train or sparks. 



Velocity or 

 dmation. 



1849. 

 Aug. 10 



10, 11 

 11 



h m 



From 

 8 a.m. 

 to 2 a.m. 

 44 a.m. 



None 



From 

 9 p.m. 

 to 12 p.m. 



From 

 9 24 p.m. 



to 

 1 35 a.m. 



[bright 

 1, extraordinarily 



370 



Many 



114 



65. 



13 

 14 

 15 



Sept. 3 



133 



20 



35 



29 



71 



52 



79 



36 



22 



27 



36 



1st mac 



Dec. 21 



30 



5 O&few 

 minutes. 



5 45 p.m. 



= i (I 's diameter 



1850 

 Feb. 3 



11 p.m. 

 6 50 p.m. 



A meteor . 



Red 



Very brilliant 

 bright red. 

 Wlien the 

 flames ap 

 peareditwas 

 almost 

 bright 

 lightning, 



Far exceeded 

 Venus. 



Like a globe of 

 l)right light. 

 For a mo- 

 ment a per- 

 fect sphere. 



Train of sparks 



Rapid. The flan 

 lasted from 5 

 7 sees. 



It then burst near its N. 

 point, and emitted up- 

 wards a knotted stream 

 of red light in a direction 

 N. by E. and at an angle 

 of about 18° from a ver- 

 tical line. The length of 

 this projected stream of 

 light was 10 diameters 

 of the d . 



Dull diik, increased 

 till =i more. 



Reddish 



Burst, discharging redfrag, 

 ments and bright train 

 perpendicularly down 



Stationary at 

 forlmin.45s 

 tiU explosion 

 ter which ) 

 body slowly 

 ved horizon 

 for 45 sees. 





