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Re: (meteorobs) Socked in..

Some proud soul wrote:
>> a meteor train that was visible to the naked eye for a full 10 mins !!!

Some proud Sirko answered:
> The persistent train was visible for more that 30 minutes with naked eyes


This year, the Leonid maximum was clouded out from Norway. But last year,
we had an similar incident to what Sirko describes.

The best Norwegian Leonid in 1995 had a terminal flash of about -10. It left
a train that was visible for some 18-19 minutes naked eye. Lm ~6.2. It was
seen visually by three observing groups spaced about 200 km apart.

The train can been seen for about 70 minutes photographically. I used a
slide film (Fuji 400 I think) on a 21mm f/2.0, and I can see the train
on 9 different exposures. The train is reddish.

The 10th and 11th exposure would probably also have shown the train, but
the sky background is over-exposed. So I can only follow it for 9 exposures.

The meteor appeared near Algieba in Leo. But after 70 minutes, the train
has drifted way down to Monoceros...

The train is visible for about 10 minutes on three T-Max 800 exposures
on a 50mm f/1.8 lens. (T-Max is insensitive to red, isn't it? I also
suspect this film was out of date.)

Digitized photos can be found on the pages of the Norwegian Meteor Section
   http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~ltheen/meteor/index.html    (probably works)
   http://www.stud.unit.no/~ltheen/meteor/index.html    (may not work)
select "Photographic reults" or something. The train can only be seen for
about 5 exposures in the digitized version.

All the best,
Trond