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(meteorobs) Re: Leonids at 8PM?
Mr. Stanford,
Let me assure you that any meteor activity you or your astronomy class
saw between 8 and 10pm had nothing to do with the Leonid shower. It is
impossible to see any Leonid activity in the evening sky until the
radiant reaches a point within 2 degrees of the horizon. This occurs
at 11:15 PST in San Francisco.
Sincerely,
Robert Lunsford
American Meteor Society
International Meteor Organization
Darryl Stanford wrote:
>
> I had my astronomy lab class at City College of San Francisco perform a
> Leonid watch Tuesday night from ~ 8 PM to 10 PM. Our observatory
> is located on top of the Science Building with a 360 degree view of
> the sky. During that time, my 25 students looking assiduously at the sky
> detected 5 Leonids, two of which had mags ~ -3, the remainder ~mag 1. I,
> myself had seen one of those mag -3 fireballs, glowing bright white. We
> were out there until ~ 1 AM & saw nothing else. However, Tuesday morning,
> my girlfriend & I had seen between 20 & 25 Leonids from 2AM to 3:30 AM.
>
> Darryl
>
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