(meteorobs) enhanced Leonid rates in the morning of Nov 17

[Uncle Chuck]

Hey All,
Everyone's reports make me so jealous.  I woke-up at around 4:30 am (EST)
and here in Western Pennsylvania, USA, it was a lovely 34° and SNOWING.  The
ONLY things I saw in the sky last night were fluffy white things.  So
Sad....
Chuck

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:09 AM, Sirko Molau <sirko at molau.de> wrote:

> Folks,
>
> after it's been raining all of yesterday and in the night, skies cleared
> unexpectedly at my observing site north of Munich at 2:00 UT this morning.
> At
> least one of my non-intensified cameras was running, and the recordings
> confirm
> enhanced Leonid rates till dawn. Here are the plain meteor counts in half
> hour
> intervals:
>
>             LEO     NTA STA SPO
> 02:00-02:30   9 (38)  0   1   0 (partly clouded)
> 02:30-03:00  13 (35)  0   0   5
> 03:00-03:30   6 (15)  0   0   1
> 03:30-04:00  11 (26)  1   0   0
> 04:00-04:30  11 (25)  0   0   6
> 04:30-05:00  12 (27)  1   0   5
>
> In brackets are the hourly LEO counts corrected for the radiant altitude.
> The
> counts are slightly higher that the Orionid counts of the same camera on
> the
> morning of Oct 20 with comparable observing conditioms (moon). Thus, I
> would
> estimate that the Leonid ZHR was of the order of 50 between 2 and 5 UT on
> Nov
> 17.
>
> Best,
> Sirko
>
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