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RE: (meteorobs) Indirect observing methods for 2001's Leonids ...
You can see more on this at the MAC site:
http://leonid.arc.nasadot gov/leonidnews14.html
There is also a link to the full paper in pdf form:
http://leonid.arc.nasadot gov/Nakamura.pdf
Esko
>[mailto:marco.langbroek@wanadoodot nl]
>Quoting Rob McNaught <rmn@aaocbn.aaodot gov.AU>:
>> Back in 1998 I gave predictions for the Leonids dust trail "glow". It is
>> in the direction of the "true radiant", not the apparent radiant. Don't
have
>> any info close at hand. Any glow is likely to be too faint to photograph
>> (I tried in 1998). A Japanese group on Mauna Kea claimed success with
CCD
>> obs, but the form of the glow seems unrealistic, unrelated to the
geometry
>> and physical nature of dust trails.
>The details of this Japanese observation can be found in the paper by
Nakamura
>et al. the Astrophysical Journal 540 (2000), 1172-1176.
>The glow they observed and attribute to the Leonid dust trail in space was
>located just (some 5 degrees) above the back of Leo and some 5-10 degrees
east
>of the head of Leo. This is indeed close to the true radiant for the stream
>(which is in Leo minor). A problem will be that this is not too far from
the
>main zodiacal light.
>Marco
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