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Re: leonid observing tips

The Monday quiet suggests that many are on vacation, or slept in and missed
the big show. In midcoast Maine, with just a thin film of quickly moving
cirrus, the sky was clear someplace through the thick of it, and every part
of the sky was clear at some point. The radiant point seemed almost
directly overhead with great activity from horizon to horizon in all
directions. Many simultaneous events and many "contrails" that persisted
for several seconds after the flash was extinguised. Several sightings
seemed to be on the axis of the trajectory, so it looked like a powder
flash from the early days. Some peripherally viewed flashes gave the
illusion of heat lightning, but very brief. With observations from 0400 to
0550 EST, it was my best show ever, and the last shot went from the radiant
point right into the (by then) significant dawn.

Tom Ford


At 04:47 PM 11/15/01 -0500, you wrote:
Allegedly
"what's coming (before dawn) on Nov. 18th could be the biggest event since
1966 [when North Americans enjoyed a Leonid storm numbering 100,000
shooting stars per hour]."

See
http://www.spaceweather.com/meteors/leonids/observingtips.html
and references therein.