A CATALOGUE OF OBSERVATIONS OF LUMINOUS METEORS. 



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Appearance; Train, if any,! Length of 

 and its Duration. Path. 



15° 



Left a bright streak for 

 2 seconds. 



Left a train 

 Left a train . 



10 



15" 

 15° 



At first a ruddy 3rd 

 magnitude star. At 

 the moment of dis 

 appearance it flashed 

 with a light nearly 

 equal to Jupiter, leav- 

 ing a luminous spot 

 at the place for four 

 seconds. 



jeft a short train 



eft a short train separated 

 from the head, thus — 



Direction ; noting also 



whether Horizontal, 



Perpendicular, or 



Inclined. 



Directed from v Bootis. 



Remarks. 



In two hours nineteen 



meteors. 

 Radiant, /3 Aurigae ... 



Observer. 



A. S. Herschel. 



Id. 



Id. 



In one hour eleven me- Id. 

 teors. 



Radiant, (i Aurigae , 



Radiant, /3 Aurigae , 

 Radiant, (5 Aurigae . 



In one hour eight shoot 

 ing-stars. 



* 



Downwards towards the 

 left, 15° or 20° from 

 perpend cular. 



E. to W., nearly hori- 

 zontal. 



Directed from £ («, S) 

 Cygni. 



Communicated 

 by T. M. Sim 

 kiss. 



A. S. Herschel. 



Id. 

 Id. 

 Id. 

 Id. 



T. M. Simkiss. 



Meteors very frequent Id. 

 through the night. 



In one hour eleven me- 

 teors. 



Id. 



A. S. Herschel. 



Id. 



Communicated 

 byW.H.Wood. 



Communicated 

 by T. M. Sim- 

 kiss. 



A. S. Herschel. 



