(meteorobs) Leonids 1998 ZHR and correction for atmospheric extinction

[Skywayinc at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/22/06 8:07:50 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
jureatanackov at email.si writes:

<< "A colleague went outside for a smoke at around 05:15 UT, and only got 
halfway
 through his cigarette  before he'd seen 35 meteors, mostly fireballs." - OK, 
I
 had some coffee today with my friends and one of them is a smoker. He agreed 
to
 do an experiment - he had to smoke a cigarette and I timed how long it took. 
5
 minutes. So it might be reasonable to expect that mr. Fitzsimmons' colleague
 observed for 2-3 minutes, indicating a rate of 12-17 Leonids per minute or a 
raw
 rate of 700-1000 Leonids per hour.  >>

This sounds like a great topic for a future paper to be published in WGN: 
"The new cigarette method for computing Zenithal Hourly Rates."
:)
-- joe rao