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(meteorobs) Leonids Nov.17/18 - West Virginia




    We had a good view of the Leonids from Mathias, West Virginia near
  Lost River State Park. It was clear the whole night. I was able to 
  break my observations down to half-hour periods, and will break it
  down to minutes when I get some time. There seemed to be a plateau
  of slow rise in the rates rather than a sharp peak after 10 UT. Even
  with strong twilight, 784 Leonids (LM=~5.8) were seen in an hour from
  10 to 11 UT; so the ZHR was probably over 1000! There were times when
  a Leonid a minute was seen. One time had five Leonids in two seconds
  that were distributed all around the radiant, like spokes on a wheel!
  A few times there were simultaneous Leonids diametrically apposed. Even 
  during the strong twilight there were many Leonids seen. It was great.


                       Leonids Maximum Nov. 17/18, 2001
                   Mountain Meadows, Mathias, West Virginia
                   Lat. 385710N Long. 0785544W - G.W. Gliba

                        Leonid Magnitude Distribution

 Time (UT)  LM  -5 -4 -3 -2 -1  0   1   2   3   4  5   FOV   Total Comments 

07:00-07:30 6.3  0  2  0  0  1  2  19  14   9   3  1  8.1+23   51
07:30-08:00 6.3  0  0  0  2  3  5  20  29  20   4  2  8.3+21   85
08:00-08:30 6.4  0  0  0  3  7 10  35  27  14   5  1  8.6+20  102
08:30-09:00 6.4  0  0  1  1  2  9  59  53  19  14  0  8.8+20  157
09:00-09:30 6.5  0  1  1  4  5 16  92  63  16   6  0  9.0+19  204
09:30-10:00 6.5  0  0  2  4  7 30 135  62  11  15  2  9.2+18  268
10:00-10:30 6.1  0  2  2  5 21 60 160 110  23  20  4  9.5+17  407   Twilight
10:30-11:00 5.5  1  1  0  1 14 31 163 123  35   6  2  9.7+16  377   Twilight 

GWG
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