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(meteorobs) Re: '98 Leonid rates

I was quite green at the time of the 1998 Leonids.  I 
hadn't yet subscribed to Meteorobs then.  A very good 
friend and his son and I ended up at Enchanted Rock 
State Park after first going to another park that 
looked like it would be foggy.  During the hour or so 
on the way to Enchanted Rock we saw quite a few 
earth-grazers out of the car windows, basically going 
the same direction that we were.  Below are my 
observations, FWTAW.

30.4 N, 99.0W, 350m - Enchanted Rock State Park, Texas
LM estimated to be at least as good as +6 throughout; 
the sky was pretty much unobstructed.  [It may have 
been a little bit obstructed due to Enchanted Rock 
itself in one direction and some trees to the south 
edge of my FOV.]

UTC (...:00 implied)      
 8:00 -  8:10    11  
 8:10 -  8:19     7  

 8:30 -  8:40    10  
 8:40 -  8:50    10  
 8:50 -  9:00    10  

 9:10 -  9:20    14  
 9:20 -  9:30    10  
 9:30 -  9:40    12  
 9:40 -  9:50    12  
 9:50 - 10:00     8  
10:00 - 10:10    18  
**
10:30 - 10:40    14  
10:40 - 10:50    10  
10:50 - 11:00     6  
11:00 - 11:10    16  
11:10 - 11:20    14  

** Twenty minutes (timing error & incomplete 
count, but seems too high rather than too low)
10:10 - 10:30    38  

Incomplete count (distracted by satellites)
11:20 - 11:30     8   

Also saw 17 Taurids (4 during 3:30-3:50) and 8 others.

That's adapted from what I submitted to Spaceweather.com 
a few days later.  I don't remember now what I meant by 
"incomplete count" other than I must have thought that I 
failed to count some that I did see, maybe simultaneous
ones.

Different topic.  Regarding the daylight fireball photo
link I sent the other day, even though it was on Art Bell's
(or "Coast to Coast") website, it really did look like the
real thing, caught by accident by someone trying out his 
camera.  I don't follow that site.  That link was sent to
the SeeSat list as photography of a possible re-entry.

Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexasdot edu - Austin, Texas, USA

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