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Re: (meteorobs) Leonids over the UK

Just keep those clouds over there for tonight at least.  I'm in Arizona
and things are very clear right now.  Just hoping for about 5-9 more
hours of cloud free skies.

Sorry about the weather there.

Michael & Susan Hogge wrote:
> 
> I'm looking forward to it here in San Josi, California, however,
> unfortunately, the forecast is for clouds and rain tonight and tomorrow
> night so I will probably be reduced to webcasts.  Better them than not all,
> I guess!
> 
> Michael Hogge
> San Josi, California USA
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-meteorobs@latrade.com [mailto:owner-meteorobs@latrade.com]On
> Behalf Of STUARTATK@aol.com
> Sent: Monday, November 16, 1998 6:41 PM
> To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com; meteorobs@latrade.com
> Subject: (meteorobs) Leonids over the UK
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> 2.39am  here, I went out at midnight, and have only come back in because of
> the sudden arrival of cloud froim the west... but since going out I've seen
> literally HUNDREDS of shooting stars, purple, electric blue, green... some
> of
> them so bright they cast shadows and ended in a flare so bright it lit up
> the
> countryside for miles... brightest was easily mag -11, left a train that
> waved
> and twisted in the air for 10 MINUTES... unbelievable, absoilutely
> unbelievable, that's what a meteor shower SHOULD be like...
> 
> It's cloudy now but as I walked home some were so bright they were flashing
> BEHIND the clouds, and probably are even as I write this....!!
> 
> So, all you guys westwards of me, all my US pals, if there's even a chance
> of
> a clear sky there tonight go take a look, it should be amazing, because by
> the
> time you're in darkness there you'll be even nearer the "peak" than I am
> here
> ... it's like the end of ID4 out there...!
> 
> Back to bed now with my alarm set for 04.00 in the hope the cloud clears...
> 
> Wowwwwwwwwwwwww.... :-)))))
> 
> Clear skies all,
> 
> Stuart Atkinson,
> Cumbria UK.
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