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(meteorobs) Crap
(Can I say that on this list?)
I apparently missed two opportunities for seeing good activity from the Leonids. I got one hour in on Monday morning in partly to mostly cloudy skies, but now know that if I had stayed out longer I might have seen some awesome fireballs (I have seen ~200 meteors/hour before; but I have never seen a -10 fireball!)
Also, the night of the 16/17 appeared to be a total loss for all of Oregon. I watched the clouds roll in from the direction of the coast all evening, then watched from 11:30pm to midnight as the LM went from 4 to 0 to indeterminate as the really thick stuff came in. I checked later in the night; it was cloudy at 2:30am and raining at 4:30am.
Now I get a message from our astronomy club's VP of observing, Chuck Dethloff. He was sick (along with myself and the rest of Portland, it seems), so he didn't drive anywhere to see the Leonids. He lives in the Coast Range, which is about the wettest and cloudiest place around and only 60 miles or so from my house. It turns out that he got partial clearing from 4:00 on, and saw 76 Leonids from 4:15 to 5:50am.
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Wes Stone
(currently in therapy to help me think not on lost Leonids but on Geminids to come)
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