82 H. A. Newton on Shooting Stars in November, 1866. 
These results agree as well perhaps as could be expected with 
those of the party on Graduates’ Hall. A considerable number 
of paths were drawn upon the charts upon both evenings which 
will serve to determine the altitude, lengths, &c., of the trajec- 
tories, if the same have been observed elsewhere. 
. At New Haven.—Prof. Twining watched alone on the morn- 
ing of Nov. 14th, giving special attention to the lengths of the 
paths, the duration of the flights, and the position and size of 
the radiant area. He says: ‘from midnight to 1 a.m., looking 
toward Leo, I observed 35 shooting stars, in one hour, and in an 
area of about 110° of arc laterally, and 70° vertically. Of these 
there were 24 conformable from an area of radiation about 8° 
in diameter, whose center was in N.P.D. 654° and A.R. 1474’. 
Two-thirds of all were directed nearly from this center. ‘The 
sky was very clear. ‘I'he conformable meteors were rather mas- 
sive, with tracks about 1’ broad. Three were much broader, and 
left trains for 28 to 6% of time. The two longest flights that I 
observed were 20° and 22° of are and about 1* in time 
“ Again I watched from 3" 8™ a.m. to 4" 8m a.M., or one hour. 
In a space equal to the former and looking toward the radiant 
I saw 43 meteors, of which 38 were conformable to an area cov- 
ering nearly the bend of the Sickle,—but far the greater numbe 
radiating closely from the small star in its middle, being the old 
radiant of Nov. 13th, 1833. The flights were generally from 5° 
im 
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the 62 conformable flights, for the two hours, was about 10° of 
arc, in ‘5% of time. B 
great that, not unfrequently, a curve, or even an angle is de- 
scribed in a meteor’s path. These sudden deviations—as wel 
as the frequent explosions—may often be due to the meteor’s 
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of flight—than the unaided eye affords are now necessary. ‘ ; 
i nted upon — 
ter, at equal intervals, and these last supporting and nor 
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