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(meteorobs) LEONIDS 17/18 november 2000
>Subject: LEONIDS 17/18 november 2000
>Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 18:10:05 +0100
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>Last night I tried to observe the Leonids. Unfortunately most of the night I
>was clouded out (with some rain). Only from 2h till 4h30m UT some small
>clearings appeared in the sky.
> From 3h50m till 4h20m I could do some usefull observations with a limiting
>magnitude of around 5,0.
>During this period 36 Leonids (and 3 sporadics) were observed.
>The primallary results a presented in attached Excel-file. The calculated
>ZHR was 439 ± 73.
>
>Alex Scholten
>Dutch Meteor Society,
>Netherlands
>
>Alex Scholten
>Horsterdijk 6a
>NL-6961 KP EERBEEK
>tel.: (0313) 651864
>e-mail: ascholten@wxsdot nl
>
>
>P.s: during the night 16/17 november I could preform some observations
>during 1,5 hour from 1h35m till 3h07m and 3h35m till 3h50m UT, with a
>limiting magnitude of around 5,0.
>During these periode I could see only 5 Leonids (and 2 sporadics).
>Therefore I can conclude that the Leonid-activity was much higher during the
>night 17/18 november than during the previous night.
Casper ter Kuile, Dutch Meteor Society (DMS)
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