OBSERVATIONS OP LUMINOUS METEORS. 



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Length of 

 Path. 



Direction or Radiant-point. Appearance, Remarks, &c. 



Observer 

 or Reference. 



3(J° or 40° in!Almost horizontal, 

 view, by a sketch, 

 good esti- 

 mation. 



like theory beautiful effect when burst- 

 ing ; left a light streak for a 

 perceptible time on the whole 

 course which it traversed. The 

 position measured by house- 

 roofs and objects. 



A. Brothers. 



towards due west. 



Directed from S Cygni. A beautiful meteor ; left a bright 

 Evidently a Leonid from 1 green streak for I second on 

 its appearance. [? A Leo-' its course, 

 minorid.] 



[A Taurid.] First waned, and then came out 



much brighter, finally bursting 

 in Aquila. Left a magnificent 

 trail of fire behind it. Imme- 

 diately afterwards another shot 

 out nearer to, and passed com- 

 pletely through Aquila, fol- 

 lowed by a third nearer to the 

 horizon. 



Radiant in Taurus ; either 60°, Small, and moved slowly (6° in 

 +20°, or 80°, +22° ; but; the first second) in the first 



half of its course. Bright as 



T. W. Backhouse. 



Arthur W. Mitchell. 

 [Newspaper para- 

 graph from J. E. 

 Clark.] 



very probably from the last 

 of these two radiants (Tau- 

 rids II., W. F. Denning), be- 

 tween /3 and £ Tauri. 



Jupiter in the last half, dying 

 out gradually at last; no sparks; 

 nearly globular ; no train or 

 streak left on its course. 



Passed obliquely across the line! A bright moon, foggy atmosphere, 

 between a. and /3 Aurigas, as! and cirrus-clouded sky dimmed 



in the sketch. 



M> [1 Try 



Mrty 



the meteor, which was yet a 

 beautiful one. It finally ex- 

 ploded, noiselessly, with a 

 shower of coloured sparks. 



L S. Herschel. 

 The ' Astronomical 

 Register,' vol. xv. 

 p. 16. (Jan. 1877.) 



F. G. Evans. 

 Communicated by 

 W. F. Denning. 



In full twilight. (At Eastslicen. 

 " E. Z.," proceeding from Ken 

 to Mortlake by the river, saw 

 the meteor in the N.E., of un- 

 usual brightness.) 



X." The ' Times,' 

 Dec. 15, 1876. 



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