A CATALOGUE OF OBSERVATIONS OF LUMINOUS METEORS. 
pearance ; Train, if any,| Length of 
and its Duration. 
reular; appeared to 
separate overhead ; the 
northern head red, 
emitting prismatic 
sparks, and leaving a 
streak of 45° visible 
eleven minutes at place 
of bursting. Other ex- 
remity, or fragment, 
dlue; disappeared gra- 
dually. 
ybular, then rapidly 
gg-shaped; then elon- 
zating itself and gradu- 
lly disappearing from 
view. Track ribbon- 
ike, yellow overhead, 
he rest blue; endured 
ome minutes. 
eedingly 
neteor, 
udden 
ight. 
endid meteor, rushing 
hrough the air, and 
{ last bursting verti- 
y downwards into 
hany pieces the size 
f two-shilling pieces. 
bright streak seen on 
urning round ; glowing 
ntensely at the lowest 
; fading quickly ; a 
mall cloud of sparks 
emained at last, near 
Ceti. 
beautiful 
presenting a 
and bright 
~w 
ied in its track a line 
-ruby-coloured fire; 
‘exploded. 
nerous prismatic) 
darks and a yellow 
il accompanied the 
teteor; the latter re- 
jained visible two 
jinutes. 
stream of fire moving 
)rward; no explosion ; 
. Sappeared gradually. 
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Direction ; noting also 
whether Horizontal, 
Perpendicular, or 
Inclined. 
Path. 
Vertical from overhead. 
Peed eee nent eee eens 
Remarks. 
zigzag. Patch over- 
| head circular ; 1° dia- 
meter ; visible 11 
minutes ; not resolved 
by power 120 with an 
aperture of 10in., 20ft. 
focal length refractor, 
which resolves the 
cluster of Hercules 
freely. 
head. 
yards high when it 
burst. 
tical ; downwards to- 
wards the right. 
TPO Ree ee eee eeeeenees 
rizon; downwards to 
left. 
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A little inclined to Ver-|++++++esesssssesssseeeveres ++.|Rey. T, W. Webb. 
ddwececunile esosvatsuccesnces sacabeueds es Communicated 
Inclined 70° to the ho-|Path appeared recti-\Communicated 
linear. 
\Tail broken at intervals,/T. Slater; 
First seen directly over-/S, Richards, Jun. 
SPAS CEE sesecsesseeeees| We Lz. B.Coulson. 
It appeared one hundred Writer 
..|Paragraph in the 
Observer. 
Te: 
Crumplen; J. 
Townsend. 
in the 
‘ Cambridge 
Chronicle.’ 
‘Bristol Mer- 
cury.’ PS. 
Hamlyn. 
by W. H.Wood. 
