Star-land; being talks with young people about the wonders of the heavens (1899)
Ball, Robert Stawell, Sir, 1840- [from old catalog] · Boston and London, Ginn & company · leaf 321
ig. 81). If a meteor were actually seen there, it wouldbe certainly coming straight towards us; it would notthen appear as a streak of light at all; it would merelyseem like a star which suddenly blazed into splendor and 308 STAR-LAND. then again sank down into invisibility. Every meteorwhich… … Fig. 81. —The Radiant. you can only see the end. If I point it nearly at you,it will seem very much shortened. During the greatshower in 1866 many of the meteors could be observedso close to the radiant in Leo that they seemed merelylike very short marks in the sky; some of them, indeed,seemed to…
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