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REPORT 1864. 



Date. 



1864. 

 -VUS.2G 



29 

 31 



31 



Hour. 



h m 

 11 8 p.m. 



9 24 p.m. 

 10 30 p.m. 



About 10 30 

 p.m. 



Place of 

 Observation. 



Apparent Size. 



Colour. 



Wolverhampton One-fifth diameter 

 of lull moon. 



Weston - super ■ 

 Mare. 



Exeter (Devon- 

 shire). 



Frant (Sussex). 



= lst mag.* .... 

 Splendid meteor . 



Orange 



Ball of a Roman 

 candle. 



Red ; after- 

 wards blue. 



6 seconds 



3 seconds. 



Blue and red ; 

 very striking 



Duration. 



Position, or 



Altitude and 



Azimuth. 



Comparatively 

 slow. 



From »; or x Cygnj 

 to « Serpentis. 



From B Persei to 

 Piscium. 



From /, g (near u) 

 Aurigse to nea: 

 the Pleiades 

 little N.), when 

 the meteor burst 



(' 



In the S.W. hori 

 zon. 



APPENDIX. 



I. Meteors doxtblt observed. 

 (1.) Shooting-star; 1863, August 8th, lO^ 55-° p.m. 



A shooting-star of long flight, leaving a long train ; observed at Ports- 

 mouth and Hawkhurst (see Catalogue). Path, 142 miles in 2-8 seconds. 

 Velocity, forty-nine miles per second. Du-ection, from azimuth "W. from S. 

 264°, altitude 30°. Uegan 141 miles above the north of France (N. lat. 

 50° 20', long. 3° 3' E.) ; disappeared seventy-one miles above the English 

 Channel (N. lat. 50° 9', long. 0° 15' W.). 



(2.) Fireball ; 1863, August 10th, 8'^ 30" p.m. 



Described by Dr. Bianconi (Report for 1863, pp. 274, 335), and observed 

 at Venice by Herr v. Wiillerstorf (Proc. Vienna Acad. vol. xlviii., 8th Oct. 

 1863). The streaks extended from near Corona to the stars of Scorpius. 

 Although, from the motion of the streak, the meteor appeared to be in the 

 region of the winds, the two observations, with a base hue of eighty-hve mUes 

 from Venice to the Sumoggia, indicate a considerable elevation. The first 

 appearance took place at a height of sixty miles, in lat. 45° 18' N., long. 

 11° 22' E., between Padua and Mantua. The meteor disappeared at a height 

 of twenty miles, between Parma and Carrara, in lat. 44° 25' N., long. 

 10° 12' E. Path, eighty miles. Direction, from the weU-known radiant- 

 point between Perseus and Cassiopeia. 



(3.) Shooting-star ; 1863, September 5th, 9'^ 55" p.m. 



Observed at London and at Wisbech in Cambridgeshii-e (see Catalogue). 

 Path, sixty miles in 1| second. Velocity, forty-eight miles per second. 

 Direction, from azimuth W. from S. 283°, altitude 34°. Began 102 mUes 

 above the North Sea (N. lat. 53° 29', long. 1° 1' E.) ; disappeared sixty-nine 

 miles above the coast of Lincolnshire (N. lat. 53° 35', long. 0° 0'). 



