A CATALOGUE OF OBSERVATIONS OF LUMINOUS METEORS, 319 
Direction; noting also 
ppearance ; Train, ifany,) Length of | whether Horizontal, 
and its Duration. Path. Perpendicular, or 
Inclined. 
Remarks. Observer. 
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appears to have been directed nearly upon the latter place, and to have flown 
140 miles in three to five seconds, from seventy miles above Southport in 
Lancashire to twenty miles above Balbriggan on the Irish coast. At fifty 
miles from Holyhead this meteor produced an illumination like daylight, 
and which cannot have fallen far short of the full moon. An equivalent globe 
of gas-flame should be 40 feet in diameter to produce a similar effect. 
(2.) 1860, November Ist, 8" 30™ p.m. 
A falling star as bright as Mars, and throwing off discharges of fragments, 
observed by Mr. Lowe at Beeston and by Mr. Penrose at Swanage, although 
roughly observed at the latter place, can be seen to have flown upwards of 
sixty miles in three seconds, from eighty miles above Wolverton (in Bucks) 
to thirty miles above Warwick. At 945 yards it would have shone with the 
brightness of full moon, and the diameter of an equivalent globe of gas-flame 
would be 24 inches to produce a similar effect. The colour of this falling 
star was red, and no train was left upon the track. 
(3.) 1862, September 19th, 5" 50™ p.m. 
This meteor appeared as a brilliant fireball, even amidst the rays of the 
setting sun. Exact measurements of the flight are wanting for the estima- 
tion of its real path ; but it appears to have pursued a track perfectly similar 
to that of the meteor which followed it upon the same evening. 
(4.) 1862, September 19th, 10* 15 par. 
_ This extraordinary meteor exploded in the zenith of London. Three in- 
dependent calculations, by Mr. Wood, Mr. Burder, and Mr. Herschel, agreed 
in placing the height of this outburst of light between fifty-five and sixty miles 
above the city or very little towards the South of London; and from the extreme 
brilliancy of the spectacle, it is probable that at places 150 miles from the 
meteor, the splendour of full moon was experienced from its light. On this 
estimation a globe replete with gas flame 83 feet in diameter would 
adequately represent the illuminating power of the flash. The remainder of 
the flight is variously assigned, from 126 miles over Boulogne, or from eighty- 
three miles over Canterbury, to thirty miles over Oxford, thirty miles over 
Chesham (in Bucks), or thirty-three miles over Woodstock in Oxfordshire. 
No report was heard to follow the explosion of the meteor. 
