Dec 1881
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Nature, Volume 25, Issue 635, pp. 198 (1881).
Physics
Scientific paper
TAKING a look at the eclipse of the moon on December 5, about 5.44 p.m., I happened to see a meteor that is, I think, very noteworthy, though, perhaps from distance, its apparent size was so small that I might have scarcely seen it but for the temporary lessening of the light of the moon. Its motion was, throughout its visible course, horizontal and slow. When it met my eyes, it was just below the Pleiades. I followed its flight to the northern end of the eastern sky; there it seemed to go on out of my sight, without fall or collapse: for aught I know, I might have observed it even from the extreme south, had my eyes been turned thither at the outset; I would draw attention to this fact, as well as to its horizontal motion and its seemingly slow progress. The grandeur of the glories displayed by that night's clear sky was at its height as this mysterious stranger passed above our winsome satellite-then a thing of ``eerie beauty,'' its glistening golden ring half-clasping, like ``the old moon in the new moon's arms,'' the earth-shadowed orb over it, and the latter shimmering with the maroon ember-like sheen called by the French la lumière cendrée.
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