A CATALOGUE OF OBSERVATIONS OP LUMINOUS IHETEORS. 89 



ppearance ; Train, if any, 

 aud its Duration. 



Length of 

 Path. 



;ft a momentary train 



6°. 



train or sparks 



train perceived 



• bular; increased ra 

 idly ; disappeared with 

 ut bursting. 



15° 



li;htest at last ; disap- 

 eared suddenly. 



t train 



e a streak 4° or 5° in 

 ngth j visible several 

 inutes. 



25 ' : 



Drain 



Direction ; noting also 



whether Horizontal, 



Perpendicular, or 



Inclined. 



Remarks. 



Observer. 



In one hour four meteors A. S. Herschel 



Clear sky; no moon ... Id. 



Directed from y Cephei 



In thirty minutes five 



meteors. 

 No meteors in twenty 



minutes; clear sky; 



half moon. 



In thirty minutes two 

 meteors ; clear sky. 



Bright moonlight night 



On the 21st, from 8" 

 to 8 h 45 m p.m., clear 

 sky ; no moon ; no 

 meteors. 



Id. 



Id. 



i,l. 

 I.l. 



1<1. 



Id. 



W. C. Nash. 



A. S. Herschel. 



Communicated 

 by W. H. Wood 

 A. S. Herschel. 



Perpendicular , 



Horizontal 



Path curved 



^Draconis. trDraconis. 



A large meteor fell and Communicated 



burst in the S.S.E. byA.S. Herschel 



(See a letter from 



Bangalore, 1865, Feb. 



10; Appendix III. 3.) 

 Moon full, hazy 



Apparent motion; seen 

 also at Sevres, moving 

 from S. to N., -where 

 the streak endured 

 ten minutes. 



Faint aurora , 



* « Cephei. 



W. C. Nash. 



Villicrs du Ter 

 rage. 



W. C. Nash, 

 Arthur Harding 



