A CATALOGUE OF OBSERVATIONS OF LUMINOUS METEORS. 



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Appearance ; Train, if any, 

 and its Duration. 



Left no train 



Length of 

 Path. 



23° 



24° 



17' 



4°. 



Left a long scarlet 

 streak on its whole 

 course for 5 seconds, 

 which became sepa- 

 rated from the nucleus 

 just before final disap- 

 pearance. 



Ended with a brilliant 

 flash. Left a train on 

 the whole length of 

 its path, which faded 

 suddenly. 



from its slow motion, 

 the eye could easily 

 see a process of com- 

 bustion like that of 

 ignited iron wire in a 

 nearly exhausted vessel 

 of oxygen gas. 



40° 



10° 



Direction ; noting also 



whether Horizontal, 



Perpendicular, or 



Inclined. 



From 7 Leonis 



Directed from e Pegasi 



20° to the left of per- 

 pendicular, down. 



From Radiant, ? Persei. 



Directed from Aldeba- 

 ran. 



cparated just before 

 vanishing into several 

 heads. 



14° 



Remarks. 



Four or five other me 

 teors seen with the 

 above. 



Darted across the field 

 of view of the tele- 

 scope like a red star 

 of the 5th magnitude; 

 very slightly woolly 

 at the edges. 



The nucleus threw off a 

 few sparks, and be- 

 came quite detached 

 from the train. 



Imperfect view 



Stars faintly visible. 

 Hazy vapour in the 

 sky. There was no 

 continuous train, but 

 sparks were thrown 

 off which died away 

 immediately. Its 



more vivid phases 

 are represented in the 

 sketch. 



Observer. 



J. E. Clark. 



Id. 



Id. 



T.W. Backhouse, 

 C. Grover. 



T.W. Backhouse, 



T. Crumplen. 



Id. 



H. P. Harrison. 



J. E. Clark. 



No detonation audible... F. C. Penrose. 



