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ON a visit to Dunecht, I was just leaving the Observatory about 11.18 G.M.T. on the 10th inst., when I saw a sharply-defined straight streak of light arching the sky from east to west. It was about 1° in width, and of uniform brightness from side to side, but more intense towards the western horizon, where it disappeared behind the trees at an altitude of some 4°. Eastward it extended across the constellation of Andromeda, near the girdle, quite beyond the convergence point of auroral rays, or fully 120° from the western horizon. This much I saw, but cannot say if the streak passed north or south of the Great Nebula.
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COPELAND, R. A Rare Phenomenon. Nature 44, 494 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/044494b0
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