page_title: 1783 Great Meteor
hierarchical_section_title: 1783 Great Meteor
caption_attribution_description: English: Print; printed in black and sepia; copy held by the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow (Accession number GLAHA3765). "To Sir Joseph Banks President of the Royal Society, London, This Plate from Motives of Respect and Esteem is inscribed by his most obedt humble servt Thos and Paul Sandby. The Meteor of Aug 18 1783 as it appeared from the NE Corner of the Terrace, at Windsor Castle, 18 Min after 9 in the Evening: it's apparent Diameter was nearly equal to the Semidiameter of the Moon, but its light much more vivid, it's greatest Altitude was 25 Deg. A. It's appearance soon after it emerged from a Cloud in the NW by W where it was first discovered B It's further Progress when it grew more oblong C. When it divided and formed a long train of small luminous bodies, each having a tail: in this form it continued until it disappeared from the interposition of a Cloud in E by S".
context_page_description: The 1783 Great Meteor was an unusually bright bolide observed on 18 August 1783, from the British Isles at a time when such phenomena were not well understood. The meteor was the subject of much discussion in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society and was the subject of a detailed study by Charles Blagden.
context_section_description: The 1783 Great Meteor was an unusually bright bolide observed on 18 August 1783, from the British Isles at a time when such phenomena were not well understood. The meteor was the subject of much discussion in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society and was the subject of a detailed study by Charles Blagden.
caption: Print of the 1783 Great Meteor by Paul Sandby (1731–1809). Original in the collection of the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery
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