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THIS evening, at 6.50, Greenwich time, I was called to my door by the letter-carrier, who pointed out a serpentine band in the sky, having a brightness rather above that of the Milky Way. It was about 3° in greatest breadth, and 20° in length. Its longest axis was in the line from the north-west point of the horizon to the pole star, from which, where nearest, it was about 20° distant. Its other extremity was very near the Milky Way, and surpassed every other part in brightness. Its pole-ward termination was faint, filmy, and bifurcated.
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PENGELLY, W. A Meteor. Nature 1, 58 (1869). https://doi.org/10.1038/001058b0
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