er 
eaeeee 
| for half a second. 
; Left no streak 
B Burst with sparks. 
a. no} visible streak. 
Left 
. ae at the middle of 
| its course. Left no 
Left a broad yellow train 
| for 5 seconds. 
Left no streak 
ee tera e eee 
see eeeee weeel® 
sown eeteelen 
see e meres nseeee 
ae eeeeeee 
Peete ereartoreneeee 
weal emote roees ee eeesereeeeeanenee 
slewenee 
sleneeeeeeeeeerernenees 
.|Almost perpendicularly, 
Preyer eee 
thus— 
\Fell almost perpendicu- 
larly. 
Orionis. 
aleeeeeeeoereecereeeseeese serene 
Peete eee ew renee eenee . 
Directed from near 7|....... 
no report heard. 
Oe POO e re reseeeonateseernseser 
Id. 
Seema eereeeeeeeetereeeeereeee 
Id. 
Id. 
Seen by several persons 
standing near together, | 
who called each other’s 
attention to it; no re-| 
port heard. 
Path not rectilinear 
eee 
Id. 
see ee ee eeeee 
Id. 
Directed from « Cygni.. 
seen eeeneeee 
Directed from Cassio- 
peia. 
Deemer er er ee eereesesesetnee 
| 
Directed from v Orionis 
.|Nine meteors 
Brightest in the middle 
of its course. 
ween ew weeeeee 
aaeeee POP erererereteteneneee 
Brightest in the middle 
of its course. 
in one 
hour ; clear sky ; 
moon half-full; one 
observer. 
W. 
.|A.S. Herschel. 
Id. 
.. (Id. 
Id. 
_ A CATALOGUE OF OBSERVATIONS OF LUMINOUS METEORS. 351 
| Lace, i 
‘, - Direction ; noting also 
_ |Appearance ; Train, if any,| Length of | whether Horizontal 
‘i and its Duration. Path. Perpendicular, or Remarks. Observer. 
Inclined. 
7 ane eh 
_ jResembled the magnesium|Half the di-|Directed, in its apparent Beginning of the me-|A. Finch. 
4 light, as seen in balloons} stance be-| path, exactly from the teor’s flight not seen.) 
a. onanight equally moon-| tween the} moon. Course slightly; The moon’s place too| 
| light; disappeared with-| moon and undulating. distant to be drawn 
| out bursting ; left a train) « Ceti. in the same figure. 
| on its course. So brilliant was the 
4 light as completely 
a to overpower that of 
the full moon in a 
cloudless sky. 
, 
Burst into several pieces./About 30°.../Inclined thus— .........,Seen in twilight; 1st/\Communicated 
Left no streak. mag. stars just visible;/by A.S. Herschel. 
A. 8. Herschel. 
Communicated 
by A.S. Herschel. 
B. Davis. 
