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REPORT — 1860. 



Date. 



1858, 

 Aug. 8 



Aug. 8 



Aug. 8 



1859. 

 Aug. 26 



Hour. 



Appearance and Brightness 

 Magnitude. ! and Colour. 



Train or Sparks. 



Yelocity 

 or Duration. 



h in 



9 44 p.m. Equal in size to a 4th Very bright.. J It left a thin train visible Slow, 

 mag. * for about 1 sec. 



9 52 p.m. 



9 55 p.m. 



8 24 p.m. 



Aug. 3010 14 p.m. 



Aug. 31 



7 53 p.m. 



Rather larger than Eemarkably 

 Saturn. bright. 



Size of a 3rd mag. *. . . Very bright. 

 Blue. 



No train 



Very rapid 



Sis times the size of Much brighter . 



A very bright train, visible Slow, 

 for 3 sees, after the 

 extinction of the nu- 

 cleus. 



Lyras. 



As bright as Capella 



than a. Lyriv 



Many shooting stars 



Sept. 22Bctween 



sunset and 

 I 11 p.m. 

 Sept. 24 Evening 

 Sept. 28 10 20 p.m. Larger than Jupiter Blue None 



Many shooting stars 



Brighter than 

 any star then 

 visible. 



Visible for about 3 

 or 4 sees. 





Oct. 22 



Oct. 23 



Oct, 27 



Oct. 29 



Nov. 7 



Not. 9 



Nov. 30 



7 38 p.m. 



8 15 p.m. 



9 9 p.m. As large as Capella. 

 7 56 p.m. 1 



Very bright. 



9 33 p.m. . 



5 30 a.m. 



9 40 p.in 



About 2° long . 



As bright as 

 Capella. 



No sparks were seen 



Colour of red- 

 hot iron ; its 

 illuminating 

 power very 

 great 



Faint yellow. . They left a train, similar 

 to a faint streak. 



Visible for several 

 sees. 



Very rapid 



Its greatest bril- 

 liancy lasted for I 

 30 seconds, but it j 

 remained visible 

 for 10 minutes. 



