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(meteorobs) Leonid shower 05.01-05.30UT
From Bonnyton house, Drongan, Ayrshire, Scotland
05:01- 05:32 UT Leonid meteors
total count of 41 meteors in 312 minute period in a temporary clearing in
thin cloud cover
Limiting magnitude about 5 in clear patches. Mag estimates hindered by cloud
mag -5/6 -3/4 -1/2 0 1 2 3
2 8 11 6 6 1 1
+5 bright but estimate not recorded (0 to -1 to -2 range)
plus 1 mag.1 sporadic
all of the brighter event had trains with about 4 persistent trains lasting
> 10 secs
A magnificent spectacle
Nick
Nick Martin, Bonnyton House, By Ayr, Ayrshire KA6 7EW ,Scotland, UK.
Latitude 55 24'56" Longtitude 4 26' 00".
"Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light, ....."
He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven by W.B. Yeats
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