Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-02-12
ANDR0MNDA. sMOWING MNTE

OWS TRAIL.
making the picture was kept In mo-
ton by hand. At about I $50 the yard
where the instrument is mounted wus
suddenly illuminated so wildly that the
observer thought the house was ahrc and
looked around, but saw nothing. As the
lett eye was covered aud the right eve
In use az the telescope, Mr.. Lewis did
not look up and therefore did not know
what had passed over him in the sky.
When the plate was put into Che de-
yvlupug lluid shortly after the exposure,
% straight black line was seen to shoot
across the plate diuguuully The first
Thought was chat the plate was spoiled
ana the impulse cuuc to take it out aud
lay 10 one side hut fortunately the de.
yvlopmvut was allowed To- proceed to
the end, and then, upon examining the
plate hy lUmp light the black line ~,
terwd To recalled the sudden flash of
light seen during the exposure, Showing
That the Nght was caused by the passage
OF am immense meteor through the con.
strllWiun Andromcdu, and 10y q remark
able chance across the center of the
plate
Upon inquiry the following day Il was
found tlWt persons near Ansouiu had
been startled I'm the same way los a
| bright light and looking mp had actual
| ~ seen lhr meteor shown on the plate.
| 10 wns seen at shelton aud described
as Intensely bright aud going, as seen
| from there, i'm westerly direction. At
| Crawford an observer reports that il
| passed from the southeast to the north
| west and exploded during the obscrya-
| ton, The Noise of the explosion. how
| ever was not heard indicating that il
was ut considerable distance.
The editor Of the Berlin Weekly News
! writes 81 had just emerged from my
| office when my attention and steps We're
| arrested 10y the sudden appearance of a
| brilliant light and the sharp shadows of
| myself and branches OF the trees as
! thrown ON the side of the building. The
| shadows east were equally as sharp as
| any thrown by powerful are light or
| u goud-Silcd moon. Upon looking for the
| cause of the sudden illumination / saw
| the beautiful spectacle, ] think il must
| have begun its descent little TO the
| northeast Of the zenith, and fell, / should
| say, about hlli-past seven or little
! later The most peculiar and interesting
| feature of tlc display was lbs very slow
| fan thus rendering Ia the sight so much
! added interest aud beauty / distinctly
| saw 1t explode, but heard no report
| whatever. ! think there must have been
| five or six different colOrcd lights at
! the burst, resembling IN every way the
| burst of Roman candle or sky rocket "
The negative showing the meteor tnil
I
! Prof Newton of Yale university Sntur-
! day evening, who was greatly Interested.
/ lty comparing the plate with q star
/ chart It's exact path was traced accurate
| ly for about eighteen degrees. Ii has
! never hcou possible before TO do more
than 90 approximate the path of meteor
as it is seen but for an instant. and tho
| mind Of an observer can only recall, per
| maps, one or TWO Of the bright stnrs
| near which IL may have PASSED
| This Is undoubtedly the first meteor
| ever photographed. Some yclrS since n
| European astronomer while observing
! noticed large meteor crossing the sky and
| quickly turning his telescope upon Il
watched il during It's flight. He
] it as Il appeared TO him. The
/ difference between a drawing from I'M
impression hardly more than momentary
and having u meteor track eighteen de-
| grees in length, engraved 10y It's own
| llght ON glass. and which is subject tc
the most delicate microscopic measure
ments Ia the laboratory az leisure, can b,
easily appreciated,
\ number of reports relating To IA,
! meteor have already been reccivod AL
! though Prof. Newton states that non,
! ol them is good for accurately tracing ia,
| path. He thinks that the meteor cam,
Just east Of the Hudson river. Pos
sihly not far from Newburg. The snow
storm OF Sunday has unfortunately hid
den whatever may have fallen, aud IN,
| search for the fragments viii prohahl,
have 10 bo delayed until a thaw comes
Two correspondents in New York cir
describe Il as brilliant blue color, some
| what like a ball from roman candle
AS seen FROM there it was about thirt,
degrees above the horizon when Il broke
and abont half way between east an,