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(meteorobs) Leonids 18/19 not much from Oregon in early morning
No real report this time; sky conditions were too variable. Actually, it was better than it looked at sunset. I planned to go out at 7:25 UT to see if I could catch any earthgrazers, watch casually until 8:30 or 9:00, and then do an hour of serious observing. There was a fog bank in the NE when I started, occasionally extending over about half the sky, but then it sank down for almost an hour, leaving clear skies. There were no early Leonids; my "over/under" for the first Leonid under these conditions was 8:00 UT (midnight PST), but it wasn't even close. A magnitude 2 Leonid appeared at 8:32 UT, by which time the fog had returned and dropped the LM below 5. The next Leonid was a magnitude 0 after 9:00 UT. Skies showed some sign of improvement, but I figured I had lost too much sleep already. I woke up a couple of times to clear skies later, but didn't feel like going out (and didn't see any meteors out my window, which is usually what draws me out of bed).
Non-Leonid activity was OK, with about 12 sporadics and 4 Taurids during 1.75 hours of casual watching. There was a long orange +1 that appeared to come from somewhere in western Cetus, and a -2 from Pegasus, but most of the activity was faint.
Looking forward to the Geminids, which usually get clouded out here.
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Wes Stone
http://skytour.homestead.com
Chiloquin, OR
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