A CATALOGUE OF OBSERVATIONS OF LUMINOUS METEORS. 



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Appearance ; Train, if any, 

 and its Duration. 



Drew a tapering red tail, 

 2^ or 3'' long, vanishing 

 with the head. 



The head surrounded by 

 a large nebulous haze 

 Threw off many sparks. 



Hazy nucleus; left uo 

 train. 



Length of 

 Path. 



Left no train 



Direction ; noting also 



whether Horizontal, 



Perpendicular, or 



Inclined. 



Remarks. 



Observer. 



Course slightly undula- 

 ting. 



Left a short train ; took a 8°. 

 sudden turn after three- 

 fourths of its course. 



Left a short bright train... 



One smaller meteor this 

 evening. 



Directed from e Ursas 

 Majoris. 



From Radiant, in Leo. 



25° 



left a streak for 2 seconds 11 0= 



From Radiant, near 

 Leonis. 



Four meteors seen in 

 thirty minutes. Sky 

 mostly clear. On 

 the nights of the 

 10th and 11th, sky 

 cloudy with rain and 

 wind. 



T.W. Backhouse, 



T. Crumplen. 



A. S. Herschel. 



Id. 



.Moved as if retarded in 

 its flight ; very cu 

 rious. 



T.W. Backhouse, 



T. Crumplen. 



icft no streak. 



eft no streak. 



Dii'ected from ft Leonis. 



7 Well observed. Three Id. 



meteors seen in one 



hour fifteen minutes. 



Two from Leo and 



one from Cassiopeia, 



at right angles to 



Milky Way. Morn- 

 ing hazy. Stars rather 



dull. Overcast at 3'' 



25"". 

 Four meteors seen in A. S. Herschel. 



15 minutes: no moon; 



one observer. 

 Sky generally clear but Id. 



hazy. Afterwards 



overcast. 

 Two meteors seen in Id. 



fifteen minutes : sky 



hazy ; one - third 



clouded, then quite 



overcast. 



Another, 3rd magnitude, 

 simultaneously with 

 it from ^ to y Ursae 

 Majoris. 



T.W. Backhouse, 

 D.Gill. 



