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Re: (meteorobs) 2002 really isn't that unfavorable moon-wise....

I'm  hooked on the Leonids and will watch them  moon or no moon from now on, 
weather permitting.
This years event was great though my location (~2000 feet elevation on ridge 
above Mosier Oregon  USA.)  had rapidly changing haze that 
would come and go so fast that it made recording the changing LM impossible.
Finally I had to just sit back and enjoy the many bright meteors and trains.
I tried to record a few 5 minute periods during the peak  when the sky would 
clear  but before the 5 minutes were up  the sky had changed drastically.

Despite the haze it was a wonderful  night,
Dustin Brown

    (hey Wes, I'm glad you had good skies in Southern Oregon)


Quoting John Krempasky <johnk@dmv.com>:

> I just checked some programs that give moon position and, while it will
> be full,
> at 1030UT on Nov. 19th on the East Coast of the US, the moon will BARELY
> be
> above the Western Horizon if I'm using the programs correctly...at my
> location,
> the extreme Western horizon is blocked, anyway, and I generally am
> looking south
> and east;  and I was favorably impressed by what I saw of the Leonids in
> 2000
> despite them being "ruined" by the moon.  Given some of the ZHR
> predictions for
> 2002, I wonder if, in fact, for many people in the US  the 2002 Leonids
> won't be
> more impressive than 2001 Leonids?
> 
> I think people are so used to "normal" showers with ZHRs at 100 and
> under and
> limited numbers of bright meteors  that some of the articles and
> forecasts
> discussing the 2002 Leonids are making too much of the moon "ruining"
> them.
> 
> Much depends on what the population of fireballs and bright meteors will
> be but
> it seems it was higher than expected this year.
> 
> John Krempasky
> 
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