A CATALOGUE OF OBSERVATIONS Ol' LUMINOUS METEORS. 



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Hour of 

 observa- 

 tion, A.M. 



h. m. 



12 IS 



12 45 

 I o 



No. of meteors 

 per minute. 



2 estimated. H.* 

 12 do. H.* 

 2S do. H.* 



Hour of 

 observa- 

 tion, A.M. 



h. m. 



I lO 



IS 



20 



25 

 30 



No. of meteors 

 per minute. 



56 counted.H. 



57- G. 

 43. G. 

 30. G. 

 43 in 2™. G. 



Hour of 

 observa- 

 tion, A.M.! 



No. of meteors 

 per minute. 



35 

 4 



34 

 o 



30 



21 counted. H. 

 13. G. 



3 in 2" count. H, 



2. G. 



I in 2™ or 3™. G. 



At about 12'' 30" a.m. an extremely vivid flash of lightning was observed, 

 which could not be traced to any cloud, nor to any meteor then vi.sible in 

 the sky. The last observations were made at 5 o'clock a.m., and the heavens 

 had then resumed their normal aspect. 



At Sunderland, Durham. — lieport of Mr. T. "\V. Backhouse on the November 

 meteors, 1866, as seen at Sunderland. 



" I looked out for meteors now and then on the morning of the 13th, but 

 saw none. It was mostly cloudy. 



" On the evening of the 13th I looked out frequently for meteors until 

 after 10" p.m., but saw only one, at S" 23". 



" On the following morning I watched from 12" 15" to 3" 35" a.m. The 

 night was splendid, though there were often small clouds ; but I do not 

 think that they at all affected the number of the meteors that I counted. 

 It was windy. I saw a flash of distant lightning, unless it was the light of 

 a meteor below the horizon. There was a very faint aurora of an irregular 

 kind, I counted the meteors now and then, and saw 

 a out of a S.W. Avindow. 

 h out of an E. window, which commands not quite so much of the sky 



as the S.W. window. 

 c, d, e out of doors ; c looking towards y Geminorum ; d towards 

 Capella ; and e in different directions. 

 " The most that I ever coimted visible at once was six meteors. It was 

 between 12" 52" and 12" 53" a.m. At 12" 31" I first saw three at once." 



* Tbese numbers were recorded, from recollection of the appearance of the meteors, im- 

 mediately after the cessation of the shower. 



t Conflicting journal entries make this statement doubtful. 



\ Approaching twilight made stars below the third magnitude invisible. 



