A CATALOGUE OF OBSERVATIONS OF LUMINOUS METEORS. 



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Appearance ; Train, if any, 

 and its Duration. 



Left a train for 12 minutes 



Left a brilliant green train 

 for 3-J- seconds. 



Length of 

 Path. 



Direction ; noting also 



whether Horizontal, 



Perpendicular, or 



Inclined. 



Left a greenish streak 



rhe light of the star 

 was momentarily ex 

 tinguished by the me 

 teor's brightness. Left 

 no streak. 



left a thin bright 

 train. The first part, 

 broken into pieces, 

 quickly disappeared. 

 The latter half, 8 

 long, soon formed a 

 wisp ^° wide, con 

 cave to the south, 

 which gradually col- 

 lected itself into a 

 knot 1° wide, and 

 drifted south to 

 Andromedae, which it 

 reached at 12" 37 , 

 and soon afterwards 

 disappeared. Total du- 

 ration 5 minutes, 

 eft a brilliant straight 

 streak upon its whole 

 course. The first 



' half became diffuse, 

 /Collecting itself at the 

 i same time into a 

 ;knot at -\ (S Ursa; 

 iMajoris, X Draconis), 

 brightening up as it 

 did so, and then 

 drifted slowly to 

 (a, l3) Ursae Majoris, 

 where it disappeared 

 at 12'> 49°" a.m. Total 

 duration 8 minutes 15 

 seconds. 



The latter half of 

 the streak remained 

 in a straight line, and 

 so faded in less than 

 30 seconds. 



Remarks. 



Directed from r/ Leonis 



Stationary, 



Directed from the ra 

 diant in the head of 

 Leo. 



Observer. 



W. R. Dawes, 



' Monthly No- 

 tices,' vol, 

 xxvii. p. 46. 

 C. P. Smyth. 



W. H, Wood. 



Id. 



H. S. Heinecken 



G. Forbes. 



A. S. Herschel 

 and A. Mac- 

 gregor. 



Id. 



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