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REPORT 1859. 



Date. 



Hour. 



1859. 

 Aug. 10 

 Aug. 11 



Aug. 21 

 Aug. 23 



1858. 

 Dec. 2 



Id. 



Id. 



Dec. 5 



1859. 

 Mar. 23 



Jan. 2 



June 21 



Sept. 2 



Sept. 3 

 June 26 



h m s 



Appearance and 

 Magnitude. 



10 13 p.m. 



1 13 a.m. 



4 5 p.m. 

 Daylight. 



Id. 

 Id. 

 Id. 



A few mi- 

 nutes af- 

 ter sunset, 



A. few mi 

 nutes past 

 8 p.m. 

 8 30 p.m 



Half a mi- 

 nute later. 

 20 a.m, 

 G. M. T. 



Great display of me- 

 teors. 



Much brighter than 

 Capella. 



Brilliant flash through 

 opening to dome. 



Brightness 

 and Colour. 



Train or Sparks. 



Velocity or 

 Duration. 



Followed by splendid train 

 of sparks, visible some 

 seconds after disappear- 

 ance. 



5 or 6 sees. 



Observations of Luminous Meteors 



12 



p.m 



11 25 p.m 

 11 52 p.m 



About 



11 p.m. 



About the 

 same time 



Large . 



Larger than * of 1st 

 magnitude. 



Large . 



-2 Jupiter. 



= ¥■ 



= 1st mag.*. 



=4th or 5th mag.*, 

 Diameter 15', globu- 

 lar. 



Nearly globular. 



Bright, but not 

 dazzling. 



Bright blue. 



Very brilliant, 



Brilliant. 



Bright. 



A smaller me- 

 teor. 

 Orange 



Bluish 

 pale. 



Bluish. 



Highly lunii 

 nous, but 

 not very 

 brilliant(?) 



Train for a few seconds. 



(Train red, a mere impres. 

 sion on the eye.) 



Train of sparks. 



After a few seconds train 

 white in place of first 

 appearance (wavy) , verti- 

 cal, then changed to 

 horizontal, in 15 mi- 

 nutes disappeared. 



Left a train for 1 or 2 

 seconds. 



Velocity moderate. 



Motion slow. 



First ascended and 

 then descended. 



Train of sparks : opake, 

 short. 



Left a long thread of 

 light behind. 



No tail, no connexion. 



About 5 sees. 



About 1 sec- 



Rapid, not \ sec. 



Descended gently. 



Descended gently 

 and steadily. 



