(meteorobs) Leonids 2007 (What Leonids?)
Thomas Ashcraft
ashcraft at heliotown.com
Sun Nov 18 13:05:15 EST 2007
For radio meteor observers : I believe the Leonid radiant is above the
horizon till about 1 pm your local time and maybe accessible a little
later than that. Even though the daylight meteors are not visible they
are receivable by radio.
My own Leonid radio and video observations are not extraordinary for the
18th. I am processing some movies of specimen Leonids with forward
scatter reflections in stereo and will post a link when they are on my
website.
Thomas Ashcraft
Mikhail Maslov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Traditional maximum of Leonids 2007 was expected not to be very
> intensive - with ZHR of only ~15 meteors. Now let's try to catch
> 1932 trail peak which is to happen in the nearest hours. My weather is
> hopeless - Novosibirsk is in the center of large cloud massive.
>
> Best regards, Mikhail
>
>
> Sac> Here is a report on this year's Leonids from long-time
> Sac> observer, Shelby Ennis, a radio "ham" in Kentucky
> Sac> who listens to meteor showers by way of radio signals
> Sac> reflected off the ionization trails left behind by meteors
> Sac> (radio scatter). -- joe r.
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> Sac> Don't know how the Leonids were, but no evidence of them here.
> Sac> Monitored 144 before & shortly after the predicted peak time. Also
> Sac> watching the PJ Web page. Think I had 2 pings in that time! The
> Sac> reports on the PJ page were "worse than a typical random night." Not
> Sac> many people on the air. Went to bed.
>
> Sac> Things might have been a little better Sun morning, maybe around 1500 Z
> Sac> or so, but not many reports and they weren't very good. Consensus seems
> Sac> to be that they were very poor this year.
> Sac> 73, Shelby, W8WN
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> Sac> Shelby Ennis, W8WN - EM77bq - KY
> Sac> w8wn at arrl.net, w8wn at amsat.org
> Sac> Web: http://www.qsl.net/w8wn/
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