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A SERIES of very clear nights enabled the Perseids to be well observed this year. The shower was not of unusual brilliancy, but it furnished a considerable number of meteors, and they appear to have been widely observed. The occurrence of the Perseid display now excites not only the attention of the meteoric enthusiast, but is seriously observed by astronomers generally, and the application of photography to work of this kind has greatly stimulated the interest in it.
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DENNING, W. The Recent Perseid Meteoric Shower. Nature 60, 377–378 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060377b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/060377b0