Northern Lights and a meteor seen in March 1863

A brilliant display of this phenomenon was seen by Mr E J Lowe of Beeston Nottinghamshire on the evening of the March 21^st, 1863, shortly after eight o’clock it reached an altitude of 43 degrees. 

At 8.33 a meteor first equal to a fourth but increasing in size to a star of the first magnitude, passed from zeta Perseus to alpha Aries, becoming remarkedly red when passing through the Aurora.

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