Word: meteors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...evidence obtained from these observations was, that the showers have all passed, but another attempt, however, was made last night. On Tuesday, which was the best time for observing the showers, the atmosphere was so cloudy that the results were very unsuccessful. The Leonid meteor showers, which come about every thirty-three years, remain for three or four years. Thus ample opportunity will be given for future observations of them...
...preparations made at the Observatory for the observation of the Leonid meteor showers have met with little success. This is due in part to the recent bad weather. 158 meteors, however, were observed and photographed, 58 of which were Leonids. At one time during the night the meteors appeared at the rate of one per minute and in some cases were of the first magnitude in brightness. They did not constitute a shower...
Photographs of the shower will be taken by the Harvard Observatories at Cambridge and Blue Hill, and by Professor Upton of Brown University who is co-operating with Professor Pickering. The idea of these three photographic stations is to give a parallax so as to see how high the meteor is from the earth's surface when it appears and disappears...
Preparations have been made to observe the five-days meteor shower, which begins on the 13th of this month, and is not expected to occur again for thirty years. A limited number of students in the astronomical department will be allowed to assist at the observations...
Photographic telescopes of different sizes were used, the aperture of the largest being eleven inches. Most of the plates, which were taken, have been developed, but they show only one prominent meteor of the first magnitude. In all, forty or fifty meteors were counted, which were small, with few exceptions. Bright meteors were scarce, and their trails short for the most part. The immediate results of the observations were not specially prominent, but as this was the first organized work of the kind in recent years, as much was accomplished as could have been expected...