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Re: (meteorobs) Re: NWM1999Nov17/18 Leonids good at end



Norm,
   Your rates correlate almost perfectly with the rates we saw from the mountains 
of Central Virginia!  I guess all the observing that we did together during the 1970's
is still transcending the decades where we have not been able to do much observing
together.  We also had a total lack of fireballs.   Therefore, I am a bit jealous of your
lovely -6!                In Astronomical Affinity - Felix
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: nmcleod@peganet.com
Reply-To: meteorobs@jovian.com
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 07:44:34 -0500 (EST)

>A preliminary count off my written pages 126 - 526 AM EST  (626 - 1026 UT)
>all sky LM7.4 gives Leonid rates 17,16,33,52.  In the 2 hours preceding
>those rates I saw only 5 Leonids.  Brightest was an orange  -6m behind me
>with train 30 seconds.  It lit my clipboard and the ground as I was facing
>east.  No dead time for recording as I was using paper folded in four
>vertical sections and writing by feel alone.   A dead slow start to the
>night and an active finish.  The last was my best useable hour since the
>Geminids of 1996.  All the clouds that came across during the day and early
>evening had dissipated.
>
>Norman
>Norman W. McLeod III
>Staff Advisor
>American Meteor Society
>
>Fort Myers, Florida
>nmcleod@peganet.com
>
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