OBSERVATIONS OF LUMINOUS METEOllS. 



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Length of 

 Path. 



18° 



About 25° 



Direction. 



Appearance ; Remarks. 



Brilliant ; left a slight streak. 



Brightest in the last half of its 

 course. 



Observer. 



Miss II. R. Herschcl. 



A. S. Ilerschel. 



Left no streak. (From middle Id. 

 of Hydra's head to 3° above 

 n Monocerotis.) 



Left no streak. (Commenced Miss F. Ilerschel. 

 near j3 Geminorum. Course 

 three fourths of the way to a 

 point 2° or 3° under Orion's 

 belt.) 



Turned sharply in its course at Brightest in first half of its 



40° 



22° 



Brilliant, and pear-shaped at last ; 

 left a long streak. 



a point 1° E. of Z Tauri, with 

 a very slight deflection 



Miss J. Ilerschel and 

 Miss M. R. Herschel. 



A. S. Herschel. 



Lvraid . 



Lyra'id . 

 Lyraid . 



S. II. Miller. 



course, then fainter and red 

 der to disappearance. Left a 

 streak on its whole course for 

 half a second. 



Left a streak on its course for 

 5 seconds. Ajipearance of the 

 meteor at the third second of 

 its flight (there appeared to 

 be a sort of vibratory motion 

 in the train). 



Parallel to and just above y, « Miss M. II. Herschel. 

 Persei nearly from e Cassio- 

 peia;. 



Motion noticeably rapid. 



J. E. Clark. 



following distinct account, and accurate drawing of the phenomenon, from 

 the 'Transactions of the Eoyal Danish Academy of Sciences,' for 1869, show- 

 it to have heen cue of large size, perhaps aerolitic ; and may afiford a useful 

 comparison with the descriptions of other equally remarkable meteors which 

 wiU, perhaps, be known to have occurred on the same date of the year. 

 Observation of the meteor: — Soon after sunset, in an almost cloudless blue 

 sky, the first of four smoke-like triangles (at the point a in the figure) was 

 observed to be formed, and the other cloud triangles were developed in 

 in about five seconds. In the place of the fifth, and in a con- 



succession. 



tinuatiou of the same line, an irregular column of smoke began to extend 



