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(meteorobs) LEONIDS FROM GRAN CANARIA (CANARY ISLANDS). SOMYCE 98



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Hello to all!! I don't have words to count that happened the last night
(16-17 november) with the  Leonids. During the end
of week several partners had observed a minimum activity of
this rain, even the messages that arrived of the list ' meterobs'
with observations of all parts of the world, they indicated that the
activity
it was not excessively big, in periods of 1 hour 3 or 4 were observed
Leonids. The passing dawn moves about 15 observers to
the summits of Gran Canaria, and on 0h TU,  we were preparing
our photographic cameras and finishing our positions of
observation for when the radiant one left this rain. The meteors
 went ascending for moments, fireballs came below the one
horizon this and that they crossed the whole sky..... the thing was been

encouraging........... . To weigh that
the radiant one was leaving in those moments, we observe one
important activity, the 90% fireballs with magnitudes understood among
-2 and -4; some included one reached magnitudes of -9, most of
them with trail of several seconds and the most brilliant with trails
until of 5 minutes visually. As the radiant one rose
on the East we observed bigger activity, for moments we were not able to

to carry out the count with our recording ones because they even
appeared in
intervals of 2 seconds up to 6 meteors. Until the dawn the activity you
it maintained, with some ups and downs, but always characterized by
fireballs
very brilliant and with trails between the 5 seconds and the 8 minutes.

Unfortunately, it was made by day and with the radiant one almost in the
Zennit, already
they came from all parts.

Matías Dávila among the 0h 30m TU until 06h TU it counted about 800
meteors.
Maximum Suárez and Fracisco Rodríguez visually in intervals of 10
minutes, they observed up to 50 meteors. Orlando Rodríguez and Closan in

little more than two hours about 300 meteors.
Many of us page the visual observation (count) with the
it photographs..... Carlos More he carried out picture exclusively and
sincerely........ it lost the bill of the photographed fireballs


These are the preliminary results of the Leónidas from Great
Canaria.


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  Sociedad de Observadores de Meteoros y Cometas de España
      Comisión de Cometas y Ocultaciones Asteroidales
AAGC - Observatorio M. Cabreja  http://www.arrakis.es/~farr
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