Meteors of November, 1868. - 399 
Arr. XLII.—WMeteors of November 14th, 1868; by H. A. 
Newton. (With two Plates.) 
In continuation of the account Alan in the January num- 
ber of this Journal (pp. 118-126), I propose to notice certain 
meteors observed at, iis or more places, with sufficient exact- 
ness to afford a par 
The most remarkable Sete of the night appeared at 1 
161", New Haven mean time, It was observed at New Haven, 
Poughkeepsie, Palisad es, Williamstown, Haverford, Wilkes- 
barre, and pro at Washington The discussion of these 
a 
observations will afford an occasion of explaining a method 
of computation of the true altitude and path from the ob- 
served tracks of a meteor. 
At New Haven.—I did not see the body itself, but the bright 
streak remaining after its disappearance was nearly vertical, 
and about 2° north of Jupiter. This distance from Jupiter 
bath, Mr. Harger thinks the estimate is, if anything, a trifle 
00 great 
No note was made at the time, of the length of the bright 
cloud. My impression, confirmed by that of Mr. Harger, is, 
that Jupiter lay about the middle of the persistent streak, al 
that the streak was not less thanfive degrees long, and aba 
bly 2° or 3° longer than that, From the first it had an ap- 
arate breadt 
At 1 15m a. N. Y. time, the trail had assumed the usual 
rok form, and I drew a rough sketch of it, and of Jupiter, as 
in the figure, plate I. The upper part had apparently moved 
northward, and the lower part southward. 
At 192 minutes past one I drew the second sketch as in 
the figure, The special object I had in view was to locate its 
several parts with reference to Jupiter 
At 30: minutes after one the cloud lay horizontally just 
above Jupiter and extending south eight degrees from the 
planet, as estimated at the time. The third sketch, plate I, 
a its center an altitude of one degree or more above Ju- 
noted at the time. My fourth sketch He that it exten- 
_ ded 3° or 4° north of J es and had its lower edge just 
time 
At fifty-seven minutes past one the cloud had become s0 oo 
faint co onto with the mist of the horizon, that in order 
