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I observed a fine meteor last night at 1.3 a.m. It came into sight so closely in the neighbourhood of a brilliant white star, which I took to be Sirius, that, as it shot in an apparent straight line, or segment of a very large arc, across the sky, midway between Orion, then due south, and the horizon, the momentary illusion to the eye was that the star, which it equalled in magnitude and brilliancy had left its place and travelled west.
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CECIL, H. Meteor. Nature 25, 78 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/025078e0
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