Oct 1877
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Nature, Volume 16, Issue 417, pp. 550-551 (1877).
Physics
Scientific paper
ON Tuesday evening, October 2, at 8.59 P.M., whilst watching for shooting stars, I saw a fine meteor. At first scarcely brighter than a first magnitude star, it suddenly increased to the apparent size of Venus when about three parts of its path had been traversed, and then it appeared to explode with remarkable brilliancy. The motion was rather slow, and just in the place where its maximum was attained, it left a short luminous streak that I could trace as a faint nebulous patch on the sky for about three and a half minutes, drifting some five degrees away from the place it first occupied, and gradually dying out until I finally lost it amongst the small stars of Cassiopeia. It had moved from R.A. 346°, Dec. 57° N. to R.A. 352°, Dec. 54° N. The position of the meteor's course as I observed it was from the star β Cephei to the direction of (and below) α Audromedæ.
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