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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