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(meteorobs) Leonids



Hi, everyone:

I'm just getting back to the planetarium after taking a couple days off
for the Leonids.  Man, I envy all of you who had clear skies -- sounds
like a fabulous show!

Here in south Louisiana we've been clouded out since Thursday.  Weather
reports indicated a clearing Tuesday morning, but it didn't happen.  A
group of us drove an hour or so north in an attempt to find clear sky,
but failed.  We ended up sitting around for a couple of hours watching
the clouds.  Every once in a while, the clouds would flash, apparently
as a bright Leonid went over.  One of them was tremendously bright with
two or three bursts.  Imagine three bright spots in the clouds similar
to the way the moon looks when the clouds are just thick enough to keep
you from seeing the disk of the moon itself, and the ground lighted
through the clouds to about the level of full moon lighting -- complete
with flickering shadows.  I can't even imagine what that one would have
looked like in a clear sky!

Maybe next year.

Dave
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