88 



REPORT 1864. 



Date. 



1864 

 Aug.lS 



13 

 13 



13 

 13 

 21 



26 



26 



26 



26 



Hour. 



h m 

 9 39 



p.m 



Place of 

 Observation. 



Greenwich 



9 39 p.m 



10 18 p.m. 



10 35 p.m. 



11 13 30 

 p.m. 



8 15 p.m 



10 55 p.m 



11 p.m 



11 p.m 

 11 p.m. 



Lee (Kent) 



Blackheath 



Greenwich 



Lady - Well, 



Lewisliam. 



Edinburgh .. 



Hay (S. Wales). 



Grantham 



Weston - super 

 Mare. 



Apparent Size. 



Very brilliant , 



=2nd mag.* 



= 2nd mag.* 

 Large fireball 



Half the size of the 

 moon. 



Considerably > 1st 

 mag* ; trans- 

 mitted consider- 

 able light. 



Very large meteor.. 



Bristol . 



Colour. 



Bluish white.. 



Blue . 

 Orange 



Duration. 



Momentary ... 



a» 



Orange colour. 

 Not a very 

 dazzling 

 light. 



H second .. 

 Quick motion 



3 seconds. 



Bright reddish 

 white, chang- 

 ing to violet 

 j'i'd at last 

 deep violet. 



Orange 



Meteor of extraor- Blue 

 dinary size. 



Position, or 



Altitude and 



Azimuth. 



The meteor itself 

 was not seen, 

 but upon Ipok- 

 ing up, the 

 train was seen 

 distinctly ex ■ 

 tending from the 

 zenith in the vi 

 cinity of (5 Dra- 

 conis to near 

 Coronas Bore- 

 alis. 



The same flash seen 



In E. a meteor fell 

 perpendicularly 

 from the direction 

 of a Andromedae. 



From ^ to 6 Gas- 

 siopeise. 



From a Herculis 

 to (3 Ophiuclii. 



In S.E., about 40° 

 above the hori- 

 zon. 



From ^ (« Cygiii, 

 « Cephei) to I 

 (y UrsoB Minoris, 

 1} Draconis). 

 Disappearing to 

 a few dc;-'ree.>. 

 above Mizar. 



Moved with an 

 apparently 

 very slow 

 speed. 



Very slow mo- 

 tion for a 

 meteor; 7 or 

 8 seconds. 



From near P ?a 

 gittje to the ccn- 

 stellation Liljia. 



First appeared 



above the Pieiadc^ 

 and set behind u 

 hill in N.W. 

 Very slow mo-iPassed from near 

 tion. the zenith to near 



the horizon in tlie 

 constel!.;tion ol 

 Ursa Major. 



