OBSERVATIONS OF LUMINOUS METEORS. 

 OBSERVED, chiefly IN THE YEARS 1878-1879— continued. 



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Length of 

 Path 



5°; longpath 



.bout 30° 



Direction or Radiant-point 



Moving in a northerly direc- 

 tion. 



Moved almost horizontally 

 southwards. 



Appearance, Remarks, &c. 



From i Ceti to Fomalhaut 

 train visible for 1 sec. 



Meteor with a reddish train . 



Like a rocket or Roman candle, 

 ball close at hand. End of 

 path apparently depressed ; 

 left no streak. 



Observer or Reference 



ery short 



only the 



end seen 1 



Radiant of the two projected 

 paths, near A. Piscium, 

 354 + 1. 



The same radiant observed 

 by Denning (350° +2°) on 

 Dec. 1-2, 1877. 



Nearly parallel to, but more 

 horizontally than, a line 

 drawn from Rigel to Sirius 



From 7 Andromedfe, across o, 

 7j Cephei to under and 4° left 

 of 7 Draconis, half that star's 

 altitude from the horizon. A 

 flash all round (before reach- 

 ing a Cephei ?) made the ob- 

 server look up to it, after 

 which it was = Sirius, leaving 

 a streak for 2 seconds. 



Nucleus with sharply defined 

 disc up to the moment of its 

 disappearance. Seen while 

 watching with students for 

 November meteors. 



A smaller meteor broke off 

 from it, just before its cross 

 ing the square of Ursa Minor, 

 and continued parallel to and 

 |° above it till both disap- 

 peared together as suddenly 

 as the meteor first appeared. 



E. F. Sawyer. Boston 

 ' Science Observer,' 

 vol. ii. p. 27. 



' Nature,' vol. xix. p. 17. 



. C. Morland and 

 J. E. Clark. 'Nat. 

 Hist. Jour.' vol. 

 p. 145. 



ii. 



A. W. Downing. (Com- 

 municated by G. L 

 Tupman.) 



D. E. Hunter ; D. Kirk- 

 wood. 'Am.Phil.Soc, 

 Proceedings,' May 2, 

 1879. 



H. E. Stevens. Boston 

 ' Science Observer,' 

 vol. ii. p. 30. 



The sky was very clear, and the 

 meteor was seen in bright 

 sunshine. 



Left no streak. [Identical with 

 the next meteor; see cal- 

 culated real path in Appen- 

 dix I.] 



. J. Skinner. (Com 

 municated by H. A. 

 Newton.) 



Thomas Whitaker ; D. 

 Kirkwood. ' Am. 

 Phil. Soc. Proceed- 

 ings,' May 2, 1879. 



W. F. Denning. ' The 

 Observatory,' vol. ii. 

 p. 306. 



H. Corder. Ibid. 



[Seen also by Dr. Rae (in Lon- 

 don ?) : < Nature,' Dec. 12, 

 1878.] 



Burst, exhibiting a display of 

 natural fireworks. No sound 

 of an explosion heard. 



H 2 



W. Airy. (Communi- 

 cated by G. L. Tup- 

 man.) 



' Nature,' vol. xix. 

 160. 



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