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(meteorobs) Florida Leonids, 14/15 Nov 1999
I began my 1999 Leonids campaign with a peaceful, lovely 3.9 hour
Teff observing session last night. Highlight of the night was my
first Leonid of the historic 1999 Leonids, at 6:15UT. A tiny mag
5 ziffer, but I was thrilled nonetheless. :)
Long Key State Park continues to be a dark, serene, natural place
to observe from, though I noted with alarm on the trip down that a
rapid growth of new high-end tourist hotels has sprung up just in
the last year... Perhaps very soon LKSP may cease to be dark? :(
The Florida Video Team of this year's NASA/Marshall Space FLight
Center Leonids Campaign seems to have all equipment well in hand,
and I believe they will be ready to begin data gathering tonight.
Here's my summary for the night: I'll try to make similar reports
as the week progresses, though between observing, transcribing and
sleep (in that order of importance), my time may get limited!
14/15 Nov 1999, Lew Gramer GRALE, Location: 24:49:01 N, 80:49:12 W
Per Start End CFV Teff LM F LEO AMO NTA STA Tau Spor TOTAL
1 3:30 4:50 04h+15 1.01 7.46 1.00 0 0 3 1 2 14 20
2 4:51 6:05 04h+15 1.02 7.43 1.00 0 3 2 4 2 12 23
3 6:06 7:15 05h+15 1.02 7.46 1.00 2 2 4 3 2 19 32
4 7:16 8:10 05h+15 0.84 7.50 1.00 6 2 0 1 4 9 22
TOTALS 3.88 7.46 1.00 8 7 9 9 10 56 99
Average Magnitudes 4.19 4.79 3.17 3.44 4.10 4.15 4.04
Take care all, and clear skies from the Florida Keys!
Lew Gramer
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