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Re: (meteorobs) Leonids from Brazil



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Ed Cannon wrote:
>Was anyone else in the Americas watching on
>Monday morning at 8:00 UTC (2:00 a.m. Central
>Standard Time, as well as Guatemala time)?

Hi Ed and All,

I was watching on Monday (Nov. 18) morning from 
3:25 to 7:30 UTC and didn't see anything unusual
under 3.9 mag. skies. On November 19 I observed
the 1767 peak from Brazil (latitude = -13 deg.)
even though it occurred as predicted over Western
Europe. As expected, the presence of the full
moon reduced the number of visible faint meteors
and smoke trains; with a VLM of 3.7 the shower
was not as spectacular as the fireball outburst
of 1998 or the meteor storm of 2001. Even so we
saw a marvelous display with several -5 magnitude
fireballs from 1:36 to 5:11 a.m. local time (UT-2).

Amongst the many Leonids, a couple of earth-grazers
were the most memorable. Residual smoke trains were
very frequent but could hardly be seen for more
than a few seconds, let alone be captured on film
due to moonlight interference. Please refer to
  http://www.reaiche.com/Fireballs_and_Meteors.html
for a few photos.

Paulo M. Raymundo
Salvador, Brazil
http://www.reaiche.com/Astronomy.html

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