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(meteorobs) Leonids 17/18 november 2000
Hi to all!
Oh what a night!!
It's hard to express our feelings in words.
It soon became clear (..) to us the weather turned out to be unfavourable
in the Netherlands.
Very cloudy weather with showers and some small spots in between.
Almost impossible to carry out multistation photo- and video-observations.
For this kind of observations one needs large, > 200 km wide, non-obscured
clear skies.
That seemed to be far from reality.
Having this kind of nearly unpredictable weather we put all efforts in
observing the 03:44 UT peak.
We (Jacob Kuiper, Jos Nijland, Robert Haas and I accompanied with five
observers of the "Stichting J.C. van der Meulen") decided to wait until the
very latest moment.
So we started our Leonid chase from location De Bilt at 02:00 UT and first
went, together with Jacob Kuiper) to the Royal National Weather Service
(KNMI), which is very nearby, to have the very latest weatherinformation
which should guide us to the correct location.
The weathersituation still proved to be very tricky and hard to forecast.
Jacob adviced us to head for the German border near Oberhausen / Venlo.
At around 4 UT we stopped our chase for the Leonids in the middle of the
province of Limburg along the German border.
In some small holes in de cloudcover we noticed nothing extraordinary.
Driving back home we were very lucky to meet a much larger hole in de
cloudcover after a heavy rainshower.
We immediately stopped at a parking place halfway Limburg and the city of
Eindhoven.
While we get out of the car we observed two bright Leonids!
We walking behing a wall which marked the parking place and from that
location we observed many bright Leonids although twilight already had
started! There was undoubtedly strong enhanced activity of the Leonids.
Alas: because of the many, many clouds we were not able to carry out any
usefull observations, visual, photo or video.
Precise data will be supplied by our DMS members who observed the Leonids
from Portugal and Spain.
Carl Johannink, Koen Miskotte and Marco Langbroek observed from Almodovar
in Portugal.
Klaas Jobse, Jaap van 't Leven and Peter Bus observed the Leonids from Faro
in Portugal.
And Hans Betlem and team observed the Leonids from a mobile locations
somewhere in Spain.
In the meantime the DMS-website at "http://www.dmsweb.org" has been fully
updated and now contains the very latest observing data from
many DMS-members.
Best wishes,
Casper.
Casper ter Kuile, Dutch Meteor Society (DMS)
Akker 145, NL-3732 XD, De Bilt, The Netherlands
Tel. +(31)-30-2203170, Fax. +(31)-30-2202695, XOIP: 0208699068
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