(meteorobs) Leonids 2012 . . . Same ol' story

[Richard Taibi]

Hi Joe, I was clouded out by the coastal storm too.  BTW, I look forward to your posts.  It's nice to see you put 'meteor' back into meteorology! Best wishes, Rich TaibiMaryland From: Skywayinc at aol.com
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:35:34 -0500
To: meteorobs at meteorobs.org
Subject: (meteorobs) Leonids 2012 . . . Same ol' story






Clocked in at 05:30 UT (12:30 a.m. EST) under pristinely clear 
skies from Putnam Valley, NY.  My wife, Renate accompanied me.  No 
wind, and an air temperature 31F (.-1C).  Saw 4 Leonids (average mag. 2 to 
3), plus 2 other meteors that could have been late stragglers of the Taurid 
stream.  
 
At 6:15 UT (1:15 a.m. EST) a broad area of mid-high level 
cloudiness moved rapidly up from the south and west and effectively covered the 
entire sky within 5-minutes.  My LM went from 5.2 to 3 and Jupiter and the 
brighter stars that were still visible now resembled little fuzz 
balls.  
 
My wife called it quits.  I stuck it out for a few minutes, 
then went back inside to listen for Leonids at Spaceweather.com.  
Heard a couple of long whistles between 2 and 2:23 a.m. EST.  Then for 
whatever reason the streaming audio stopped.  Headed back outside 
at 07:30 UT (2:30 a.m. EST) but the same high-level "schmutz" was in place 
and toward the south I could see lumpy sheets of 
stratocumulus evolving.  I remained until 08:00 UT (3 a.m. 
EST) hoping to see at least a nice, bright Leonid through the thin curtain 
of murk, but it was not to be.
 
To quote sewer worker, Edward L. Norton: "I guess we're just 
hangnails on the fickle finger of fate."
:(
-- joe rao    
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