A CATALOGUE OF OBSERVATIONS OF LUMINOUS METEORS. 
Date and hour, 1868, 
August Jf Tl o7™ 12m Q7m 44m 
Number of conformable 
meteors. } 4 3 ) 3) 
Do. erratic. 1 1 0 2 
| 1th (p.m) | 12th (a.r.), 128 
Total 
numbers. 
Ee 
4 
| 
385 
Average num- 
ber per hour. 
16 
At Airth, near Falkirk, in Scotland, the apparent paths of nine meteors 
were recorded, and three other shooting-stars were seen, by Mr. Howlett, 
during the hour from 10" to 11" p.m, on the evening of the 9th. 
‘The courses of all but two, which radiated from Pegasus, were directed 
from a point in the midst of a triangle formed by Algol, y Andromedz, and 
Cassiopeia, as shown in the accompanying figure—or at the centre of the 
quadrilateral formed by those two stars 
with the extreme bright stars (3 and e) 
of Cassiopeia. 
“Clouds and a dense haze overspread 
the sky so thickly on the night of the 
10th, that only three bright meteors 
could be distinguished through the fog, 
between 10" and 11" p.m, clearly indi- 
eating, however, a considerable activity 
of the shower.” 
London (L.), Winchfield (W.). 
* 
Algol 
Casstopeta 
€ 
ok KY Ke 
+ 
Sindee is 
Radiant 
1 Y Andromedce 
Heights of the meteors simultaneously observed.—On comparing together the 
observations made at the several stations, eleven meteors are identified, from 
the list, as haying been simultaneously observed at two stations, whose names 
are indicated, for shortness, in the following Table, by their initial letters, 
viz. Birmingham (B.), Hawkhurst (Ha.), Highfield House Observatory (Hi.), 
The corresponding observations are placed 
in the foregoing Catalogue ; while the times of appearance recorded at the first 
place of observation, and the particulars of apparent size and train observed 
at both stations, are entered in the following Table. 
The real heights at 
first appearance and disappearance, and the directions approximately calculated 
from the observations by means of graphical projections of the apparent paths 
recorded at the two stations, are entered in the last columns of the Table. 
Table of Heights of August Meteors observed in England in 1868. 
Height in B.S. 
ueior ans». \e E 3 E Apparent | Appearance piles as 
; pabcgene E = 3/§ 8] size as per of trainand its — 
| 1868, ae stati att a| @ stars. duration. [1st ap-| Disap- 
. GMT z pear- | pear- 
he HEN | Ed I. Il. die II. | ance. | ance. 
h m s 
10 5 25 pw. | Hi.| B. | 2 1 | with | with | 105 47 
AO, (| BS |) 2 1 ... | with | 65 38 
ii eee (BS je 1 | with | with | 57 52 
Bie Oe sx | Ebi || Be) |) Le 1 | with | with | 60 50 
2 0 2am. |} Hi| B. | 2 1 St) Welt, | 7, 43 
943 Opsm.| L. |Ha.| 2 2 ae 69 ol 
1036 0 ,, | L.|Ha| 2 1 with | 29 | 23{ 
Bom OR sy 4 | b.8| We | 63d 3 Re roa 93 59 
tie) -,, | B..|-W. |:‘Sirius:| — 22 with |8sees.| 54 41 
Sam Ole ssn |i: Ber\|\ Wisnlye 2 1 | with | with | 80 52 
12 8 Oam.| B. |W. YL % |20secs.!3 sees.} 101 42 
Approximate 
radiant-point, and 
remarks. 
e Pegasi. 
7 Persei. 
‘Telescopium. 
Aries. 
y Andromede. 
Persei. 
A very doubtful ac- 
cordance. 
Perseus. See infriz. 
Perseus. See infra. 
See infra. 
Cassiopeia. See inf. 
The observations of No. 7, although agreeing well together, exhibit such 
a considerable parallax as to make the reality of the accordance, if possible, 
