A CATALOGUE OF OBSERVATIONS OF LUMINOUS METEORS. 



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Appearance ; Train, if any, Length of 

 and its Duration. j Path. 



.V ball of fire, followed by 

 a tail of the same width 

 10° in length. The Ivjdv 

 bright yellow ; the tail 

 green, blue, and dusty 

 yellow. 



'Left a track behind it afterl 

 the nucleus disappeared. 



Followed by a long 

 flickering tail. Re- 

 mained invisible be- 

 hind a cloud whilst 

 4 or 5 seconds were 

 counted, and then re- 

 appeared again. 



A ball of fire, followed by 

 a long tail. 



Left a faint train. 



Left no train 



Left a train 10° in length. 

 The meteor increased 

 from a 3rd to a 1st 

 magnitude star. 



Left no train 



Left no train 



Left a. train 

 Left a train 



iLeft no train 



10° 



10° 

 6° 



10° 

 30° 



Direction ; noting also 



whether Horizontal, 



Perpendicular, or 



Inclined. 



E. to W., perpendicu- 

 larly down. 



Inclined 



Nearly perpendicular . 



Inclined 

 Inclined 



Inclined ; directed from 



e Persei. 

 Inclined 



Inclined 



Remarks. 



Cast a glaring light ; the 

 streak remahicd visi- 

 ble a few seconds after 

 the meteor had disap- 

 peared. Air very 

 clear, and the stars 

 very bright. 



Cast a light on the 

 road like the flash of 

 carriage lamps. 



The light was sufiicient 

 to have read a watch. 



Seen through a break 

 in the clouds ; shortly 

 followed by a hail- 

 storm. Light suffi- 

 cient to pick up a pin. 



Descended with a wa- 

 ving motion. 



J. Ludlow. 

 H. Todd. 



Observer. 



The ' Standard,' 

 Nov. 23rd. 



Communicated 

 byA.S.Herschel, 



Thomas Wright. 



W. H. Wood. 

 Thomas Wright. 



W. H. Wood. 



Arthur Harding. 

 F. Trapaud, 



Id. 

 Id. 



Arthur Harding. 



