Sep 1894
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1894natur..50..475c&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 50, Issue 1298, pp. 475 (1894).
Physics
Scientific paper
IN case it may prove of interest, I write to say that I noticed the meteor mentioned in your last number by Mr. John Earle, as having been seen on the night of August 26. I was walking in the country that evening, and not long after 10 p.m. I saw the landscape lighted up as by a vivid flash of lightning from behind me-my back being towards the north at the time. On turning round, I just caught sight of the meteor as it disappeared, leaving a bright track behind it, about two degrees of arc in length. This track, as seen from where I stood, lay half-way, or nearly so, between the last star in the tail of Ursa Major and Alpha Canum Venaticorum, and in a line connecting the above two stars. It lasted several minutes, as far as I could judge, gradually fading away, and curled up at the lower end, after the manner described by Mr. Earle; but I did not detect any change of position. It seemed to remain about half-way between the end of the tail of Ursa Major and Alpha Canum Venaticorum all the time it was visible to me. I regret that, not having matches with me, I was unable to read my watch and take the exact time of the phenomenon.
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