The November Meteors

The Leonid storm of 1868, between midnight and five in the morning.

Chart: The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings
Plate: Plate XII
Astronomer: Étienne Léopold Trouvelot
Date: 1881
Held by: New York Public Library · via Wikimedia Commons

Plate XIIas observed November 13 to 14, 1868

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Plate XII of The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1881: the November meteors, watched by Étienne Léopold Trouvelot between midnight and five in the morning on November 13 and 14, 1868. These are the Leonids, the shower that comes each November from the debris of comet Tempel-Tuttle and breaks into a storm about every 33 years. The storm of 1833 had astonished North America. It came back in 1866, and in 1868 it reached a thousand meteors an hour in dark skies. Comet and shower had only just been tied together, in 1866 and 1867. This is the oldest night in the portfolio.

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