(meteorobs) Leonis Minorid Shower

Robert Lunsford lunro.imo.usa at cox.net
Thu Nov 21 10:04:30 EST 2013


Paul,

2 LMI's in 40 minutes is not all that unusual at maximum. The normal maximum hourly rate is 2-3, but I did not expect that many under the moonlit conditions. If your shower members are that bright then you are going to see them regardless of the moon. This shower does produce some bright meteors as I have photographed several LMI fireballs.

Clear Skies!

Robert Lunsford


---- pzeller1966 <pzeller1966 at gmail.com> wrote: 
>   I realize that this is weeks old, but I had a chance to get outside for
> 40 minutes before dawn on Monday October 21st to do some meteor observing.
> I'd had the Orionid shower in mind and I did spot one faint member of that
> shower during that time, but I also spotted two bright meteors that seemed
> to both come from Leo Minor. I didn't realize that there was a minor shower
> called the Leonis Minorids that peaks around that date until the next day
> when I was reading Robert Lunsford's Meteor Activity Outlook for that week.
> That article seemed to indicate that the hourly rate for this shower was
> just about 1 per hour. I'm wondering if any experienced observers saw a
> more active LMI shower than usual this year? I was observing October 21
> between 8:15 - 8:55 UT. There was bright moonlight but I could see stars as
> faint as 4.5 magnitude looking high in the East-Northeast. The Orionid was
> about 3.0 magnitude and the Leonis Minorid meteors (if this is what they
> were) were 1.0 and 0.0 magnitude. The brighter one had a train that lasted
> about 1 second.
> 
>   Paul Zeller
>   SE Indianapolis, IN, USA



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