A CATALOGUE OF OBSERVATIONS OF LUMINOUS METEORS. 



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tVppearance ; Train, if any, 

 and its Duration. 



Left a train for ten mi- 

 nutes, which underwent 

 a series of changes of 

 its form before it disap- 

 peared. 



Left a train like molten 

 silver several minutes in 

 width and 15° in length, 

 which gradually became 

 contorted, like a skein 

 of silk when thrown 

 upon a table, until it 

 resembled a letter L, or 

 a horseshoe ; the sum 

 mit of the arch pointing 

 to Ursa Major, and 

 curved round (3 Cephei. 



Left a bright orange- 

 red light cloud of 

 horseshoe form (fig. 1), 

 extending from 5 Ca- 

 num Venaticorum to 

 near y, S Ursae Ma- 

 joris. At 2^ 44™ a.m. 

 the streak was heart- 

 shaped (fig. 2), the apex 

 at X Ursae Majoris. At 

 2'' 48" a.m., one branch 

 extended to | {j3, y), and 

 the apex was at {p) 

 Ursae Majoris (fig. 3). 

 At 2^ 52"" a.m., the ex 

 tremity of one branch 

 was at the ' Pointers ' {. 

 j3) ; the apex was at 

 Ursae Majoris, and the 

 other extremity was sta 

 tionary throughout the 

 time at 5 Canum Vena 

 ticorum, until 2'' 58" 

 a.m., when the light 

 faded away and disap 

 peared. 



Left a luminous streak 

 which assumed succes- 

 sive forms, as in the 

 figure. 



* Castor. 



e Pollux. 



Length of 

 Path. 



Direction ; noting also 



whether Horizontal, 



Perpendicular, or 



Inclined. 



Cast the observer's sha- C. P. Smyth, 

 dow on the ground. 



Remarks. 



Observer. 



T. P. Barkas. 



(X 



Ursa Major. 





A. S. Herschel 

 and A. Mac- 

 gregor. 



J * 



>^.-. 





;r%«» 



Aldebaran. 



Aldebaran, 



r,P^~ 





%%3 ® 



Aldebaran. 



The light of the meteor 

 was more like sun 

 light than any other. 

 The brightest meteor 

 of any seen on this 

 night. No report 

 heard. (See Ap 

 pendix II.) 



D. Gill. 



