Leonids

[Fred Ley]

It is 2010 hours here in Southern California. I have a few more hours of waiting to see, I hope, a good Leonid performance. Our projected time is between 0200-0400 hours. Did any of you get to see a good performance in Hellas? I am at 34.6713N and 117.8242W and 2,600 feet (792 meters) in elevation.

 

Clear Skies,

Fred Ley

[Fred Ley]

It is 0205, Tuesday, did see a bright meteor near the North horizon. Should expect things to pick up here.

[RaQua]

Hello Fred,

 

Unfortunately i think that many places here were fogged out so a lot of people didn't have the chance to see the Leonids.

But we managed to get to Mt Taygetos above the clouds and we observed a wonderful display with many bright ones (2 fireballs of magnitude -8, several of -5,-4 and many -3,-2). We clearly saw the maximum at 6:15 with numbers such as 60-70 meteors per 5min counts.I could hardly count the Leonids!!

It was a wonderful show and an impressive experience for me!

More to come later..

 

Grigoris

[Fred Ley]

Hi Grigoris,

 

The display here was not a very good one. Quick and bright meteors were seen near the North horizon and a few bright ones in the West, about 40 degrees above the horizon. There were a few overheads ones too. I guess the Kalamata and Sparta area was a good place to be as you described. I set up a camera with a 24mm lens and stopped the lens down. I took a few short exposures since the Moon was out. Oh well, at least the coyotes were howling and the dogs in area all started barking. I am in the High desert here in Southern California.

Clear Skies,

Fred

[RaQua]

Agapitoi filoi,

 

Twra pou teleiwse i drastiriotita twn Leontidwn 3ekinisan oi analuseis.

Deite sto proswpiko mou site:

http://users.ntua.gr/ge99010

ta prwta apotelesmata pou prokiptoun apo mia prokatarktiki analysi apo to IMO.Episis iparxoun links gia alles 2 analuseis (prokartaktikes panta) kai tautoxrona mporeite na deite tis dikes mou paratiriseis stis Leontides.

 

Kales paratiriseis!

Grigoris