OBSERVATIONS OF LUMINOUS METEORS. 



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Length of 

 Path. 



Direction or Radiaat-point. 



Appearance j Remarks, &c. 



On Sept. 28, at 7'' 25", a sudden 

 flash of light, evidently me 

 teoric, was observed, but no 

 meteor could be traced. (See 

 also the ' Astronomical Regis 

 ter ' for Nov. 1870.) 



J. Lucas. 



Id. 



Fell vertically downwards 



Horizontally from right to 

 left. 



Vertically downwards 



The opposite direction to that 

 of the Perscids, or August 

 meteors. 



Probable direction : — 



Y 



Observer. 



One of the brightest meteors 

 hitherto observed. Among 

 about 30 meteors mapped with 

 a meteoroscope on the same 

 night; not more than 8 or 9 

 had their radiant-point in Leo. 

 [Also observed at Beckenhara 

 Kent. See last Report.] 



Id. 



Id. 



Mr. Keating and J. 

 Lucas. 



W. Davenport. Com- 

 municated by W. ¥. 

 Denning. 



The first meteor faint in colour 

 the second very bright, re 

 sembling a red-hot iron bolt or 

 urn-heater. 



Pear-shaped with a narrow short 

 train 1° or U° long. Its 

 brightness decreased, and its 

 speed diminished towards the 

 end of its course as if by the 

 eflfeet of foreshortening. 



Fireball ; nucleus with a con. 

 siderablc dibk. Well observed 



, Lucas and 

 Keating. 



Mr. 



Joseph Seaton. (Com 

 municated by G. J 

 Symons.) 



II. W. Jackson. 



E. II. (newspaper para 

 graph). Communi 

 cated by R. P. Greg. 



Communicated by J. E 

 Clark. 



