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Hello to all,
After a short rest, here a message from
the DMS team on location on a
site near Valencia Spain (Dos Aguas).
After
driving many hours from our location in clouded France, we arrived
yesterday,
the 17th november1999, at 20.00 UT under the clear sky's of
Spain.
After
setting up our equipment we started our observations at 22.45 UT.
The firtst
two hours Leonid activity was low, but after 00.30 UT reates
increased very
quickly.
Around 02.00 UT raetes were so high that it was impossible to
estimate
magnitudes. This meanes that we saw average one meteor each second
with
outburst to five meteors each second! The average magnitude of
the
meteors was from +3 to +5, but also some fireballs were obeserved.
Our
image intensifiers recorded hundreds of Leonids.
As soon as we can
reastablish a good internetcontact, we will post these
pictures at our
homepages (after 20th november).
Sorry for these
inconvenience.
Regards from Spain,
Robert Haas
Jos
Nijland