66 



REPORT 1866. 



Date. 



Hour. 



Place of 

 Observation. 



1865. h m s 

 Nov.18 6 14 30 Blackheath 

 p.m. 



6 59 30+ 

 p.m. 



18 



18^ 9 23 p.m, 



18 9 45 + 

 p.m. 



18 9 45 + 



! p.m. 

 21 Eveniug ... 



Ibid 



Greenwich 



Granchester 

 (Cambridge). 



Ibid, 



21 



21 



Finchley, near 

 London. 



6 p.m.|Oundle (Notts). 



Apparent Size. 



=3rd mag.* 



= 2nd mag.* 



= 2nd mag.« 



A. bright meteor. 



A bright meteor. 



Three times larger 

 and brighter than 

 Venus at its 

 brightest. 



Unusually brilliant 

 meteor. 



Colour. 



Duration. 



White 3 seconds 



Position, or 



Altitude and 



Azimuth. 



Bluish i2 seconds. 



Blue 3 seconds 



6 p.m. 



21 



21 



Wisbeach (Cam- 

 bridgeshire). 



6 p.m. Norwich 



Twice the apparent 

 size of Jupiter, 



Meteor blue 

 tail white. 



. Passed midway he- 

 I tween /it and 

 Lyrse towards 9 

 Draconis. 



From 7 Cygni to a 

 point near ft 

 Cygni. 



From the direction 

 of Capella to- 

 wards a Ononis. 



Course parallel to 

 and just below 

 /3, y Ursae Ma- 

 3 oris. 



Near t Ursae Ma- 



I jons. 



Passed dkectly 

 overhead. 



A few mi- Harpenden, St, 

 nutes past Albans (Herts), 

 6 o'clock. 



21 A few mi- Near Liverpool;! Large meteor 

 nutes after! Lat. N. 5."^° 24'i 



Very large meteor.. 



21 



6 p.m. 



39", Long. W. 

 2^ 59' 30". 



Colours vivid; 

 changing. 



About 4 sees... From i° below i 

 Ceti to V-' below 

 S Aquarii ; com- 

 mencing to the 

 east of I Ceti, 

 and disappearing 

 some distance 

 below S Capri- 

 corni. 

 .\ppeared within 5^ 

 of the Pleiades 

 [ ? if 4' Aquarii] , 

 and moved across 

 the sky full south. 



At least 2 or 3 

 seconds. 



6 5 p.m. New Brighton, Large and brig&t. 

 I Liverpool. 



Moved slowlv. 



:ll 



started near th( 

 zenith, and dis-' 

 appeared S.W, 



II 



First appeared S.E. 

 at altitude about 

 58°. Disap. 



peared on the 

 southern meri- 

 dian. 



The meteor was; i 

 first seen S.E. at|| 

 altitude about 

 25° or 30^ and 

 went out at thf 

 same altitude 

 S.W. ,1 



Like a Roman-canJ I 

 die baU. ' ' 



