OBSERVATIONS OF LUMINOUS METEORS. 

 observed, chiefly in the Yeaes 1878-187&— continued. 



95 



Length of 

 Path 



Bather long 

 course. 



20° or 25° 



Direction or Radiant-point 



Appearance, Remarks, &c. 



Directed from 

 8 Cygni. 



2° left of 



At first nearly horizontal, at 

 last sloping downwards 

 considerably. 



No explosion ; streak visible 2 

 seconds, broadened and dis- 

 appeared. 3 or 4 seconds 

 later a small meteor shot 2° 

 or 3° in the same direction 

 below € Piscium. 



Left a streak. A Perseid. 



Observer or Reference 



>° 



Towards S.W. 



No final disruption of the nu- 

 cleus seen, nor sound of an 

 explosion heard. (Seen also 

 at Titusville, Pa. ; exploding 

 with loud detonation in the 

 west). 



Left a streak . . . . 



Appeared about two minutes 



after the last meteor. 

 Seen by another observer about 



the same time as the last 



two meteors. 

 One bright meteor following 



another at a little distance. 



H. Pratt. (Communi 

 cated by G. L. Tup. 

 man.) 



T. W. Backhouse. 



Shot westwards . 



Nucleus 

 train. 



with orange-coloured 



J. A. Bower. (D. Kirk- 

 wood/Am. Phil. Soc. 

 Proceedings,' May 2, 

 1879.) [For real 

 path of meteor see 

 Appendix i.] 



V. Cornish. ' The Ob- 

 servatory,' vol. ii. p. 

 205. 



Id. (Ibid.) 



(Ibid.) 



Lit up the landscape. Followed 

 at IP 20 m by a smaller me- 

 teor, taking the same direc- 

 tion. 

 Radiant of this and the next Left a short streak at 156° + 



meteor at 295 + 83. 



58° for 10 seconds 

 Left a streak of 4° for 25 se- 

 conds. Resembled the last 

 meteor very closely. 



Mr. Bassett. ' The 

 Observatory,' vol. ii. 

 p. 203. 



Communicated by W. 

 F. Denning. « The 

 Observatory,' vol. ii. 

 p. 205. 



Ibid. 



E. F. Sawyer. ' Am. 



Jour, of Sc.,' Nov 



1878. 

 Communicated by W. 



F. Denning. 'The 



Observatory,' vol. ii. 



p. 205. 

 Id.; Ibid.; (and p. 243. 



foot of the page.) 



W. F. Denning. 

 Id. 



Benj. Vail, D. Kirk 

 wood, ' Am. Phil 

 Soc. Proceedings, 

 May 2, 1879. 



