Electro astronomical atlas ... with explanatory notes, questions and answers (1874)
Spoor, J. W. (Joseph W.) · Albany, N.Y., Weed, Parsons and Company · leaf 124
The appearance of meteors is more rare thanthat of shooting stars, the total number of obser-vations recorded amounting at most to a thousand,reckoning those recorded by the ancients. A curious circumstance, and one which helpsto prove the relationship between the shootingstars and meteors, is the… … APPEARANCE OF A METEOR IN A TELESCOPE. (SCHMIDT.) [One of the most curious observations of ameteor which have been recorded, leaving that of1783 out of the question, was recently made byDr. Schmidt, who was fortunate enough to observea large meteor in a telescope, under a magnifvingpower of eight…
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