Oct 1883
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Nature, Volume 28, Issue 729, pp. 589 (1883).
Physics
Scientific paper
DURING the month of August I watched the meteors from Logiealmond parish manse, Perthshire, but there the weather was most unpropitious for observing any celestial phenomena, so only a few were seen; whereas there in August last year I witnessed some gorgeous showers of brilliant meteors, which the readers of NATURE may recollect. Here in Paisley, on the last Sunday of August, about 11.50, a very large meteor blazed from due south to due east, with a long train, lasting for a minute, and keeping parallel to the horizon, nearly midway to the zenith. The month of September was unusually rich in meteors, but they were generally small and transient, and seemed to be very remote, some of them dashing straight up. A bright but momentary one shot up at right angles from the Pleiades. On September 24, at 10.55 p.m., a very peculiar meteor started from Aldebaran, and exploded in the head of Pisces, under the Square of Pegasus. It was dimly seen through a haze, with a long streak behind, giving unmistakable evidence of its large size; yet, though scarcely seen above its path, brightly shone the Pleiades, Aries, and the Square of Pegasus. On the 25th, at 11.56, a similar one, scarcely seen, sailed through a haze from Pisces to Altair, exhibiting a long trail of broad light, showing that it was a large one. September 30, at 0.12, a meteor considerably larger and brighter than Jupiter passed from the third bright star in Auriga (taking Capella as the first), and exploded close to the lower Pointer in the Plough, leaving a long train of reddish light behind it. On the night of the 29th and morning of the 30th, up to 4, the meteors were unusually large and of longer duration, and altogether more numerous than I have ever seen them in September. A few momentary meteors were seen on the night of September 30 and morning of October 1
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