(meteorobs) Observations Last Night

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@ James B.

  I only saw three leonids this morning during a one hr obs between 0500 and 0600 CDT. The best was a -4 at 0548 hrs with three sec persistent 35 degree trail ...see below. Did your camera see this one?

  ‎2011-11-18 0500 hrs CST ... Leonid Meteor Shower. 
  The sky over Belvidere, IL was laced with hazy cloud masses. I chose to observe for one hour. The wind at my exposed location seemed to be 10-15 mph, temp 29 F. I faced away from the moon. 

  My best view of the sky, not counting light domes from surrounding suburbs, was the area bounded by the constellations and asterisms of Sirius, Orion, Pleiades, Auriga, Gemmini, and Procyon. I saw three Leonid meteors, 0516 hrs,-1 mag, beginning in lower gemmini, 5 degree non-persistant trail... 0518 hrs, 1 mag, beginning in Auriga, 10 degree non-persistant trail... and the best by far, 0548 hrs, -4 mag, beginning in mid Gemmini, 35 degree trail that headed off to northwest between Pleiades and Auriga with three seconds of persistence.I saw no other meteors.

 Is there any clever way, to provide an admittedly crude, estimated ZSR for my location given the small area of the sky I could see well?
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----- Original Message -----
From: "James Beauchamp" <falcon99 at sbcglobal.net>
To: meteorobs at meteorobs.org, "Bill Godley" <wwgj180 at yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 9:27:55 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Observations Last Night

Hi Bill.  I didn't see any hits at that time - but sometimes the software doesn't trigger when something is close to the mask.
 
I have to use a mask to prevent trees and car lights reflecting on objects from making fase triggers.
 
I'll check the archives tonight.
 


--- On Fri, 11/18/11, Bill Godley <wwgj180 at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: Bill Godley <wwgj180 at yahoo.com>
Subject: (meteorobs) Observations Last Night
To: "meteorobs at meteorobs.org" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Cc: "James Beauchamp" <ok113cmdr at sbcglobal.net>
Date: Friday, November 18, 2011, 9:10 AM





I was out between 08:51 UT and 09:51 UT last night (17/18Nov2011).
 
About 20 minutes into the count, facing W with the moon off my left shoulder, I saw a +3 NTA glide through the torso of Orion.
 
Things were slow, no SPO's or anything else, so I decided to try to face ENE - more moon but with he radiant in my FOV.  I used a stick with a small paper plate to block glare.
 
I saw a +4 Leonid.
 
With 2 minutes left before calling it quits (09:49), I saw an estimated -4 Leonid fireball shoot down toward the eastern horizon.  I was glad to see it.
 
James B - it was off to the east from here near Tulsa so I guess no chance you caught it on camera?
 
Bill,
Coweta, OK
 
 
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