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EEPORT 1873. 



Date. 



1872. 

 Jan. 2 



Hour. 



Place of 

 Observation. 



Apparent 

 Magnitude, 

 as per Stars. 



h m s 

 11 29 



Hawkhurst 



11 31 Eaton Sciuarc, 

 London. 



11 33 



11 33 



Ibid, 



Hawkhurst 



3rd maa;. 



=: Castor , 



11 54 Ibid 



11 54 30 



Eaton Square, 

 London. 



Apr. 19 11 26 Wisbeach, Cam- 

 bridgeshire. 



19 11 27 30 



19, 11 28 



Ha\Ykhurst 



York. 



= Sirius 



Brigbter than 1st- 

 ma.a;. * 



1st ma?. 



= Sirius 



1st mag. 



1st mag. 



:Siriiis 



Colour. 



Duration. 



Position. 



White ;2 seconds 



From about y Cas- 

 siopeise towards 

 a, /3 Arietis. 



From J (a, (3) Au- 

 riga; to \ Tauri. 



Wliitc 1-4 second ... From 130°+6-5° 



to 114 -6 



White, then 2 seconds, 

 oranjre. 



From 115° +29° 

 to 91 + 4 



From B Camelo-i 

 pardi past a Per- 

 sei, and past the 

 Pleiades. 



«= S^ 

 From 9G°+44° 

 to 80 +10 



Vellow 3 seconds «= S- 



From 232° + 73"= 

 to 107 +63 



White 



0'5 second 



.From 450+50° 

 j to 50 +50 



'From228-5°+29' 

 I to 203 +12 



II. Laege Meteoks. 



In addition to the occurrences of this kind of whose appearance accounts 

 were received by tlic Committee since their last E-eport, the following list 

 describes some conspicuous meteors of which no particulars were contained 

 in previous Eeports : — 



1. 1851, July 30, S'^ lO'^' p.m. (local time).— Two days after the total 

 eclipse of the sun in the north of Europe in that year, a large fireball was 

 seen in Denmark and on the coasts of the Baltic, in bright evening light ; 

 and it was described in many of the contemporary local newspapers. The 



