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Old November 19th 06, 11:33 AM posted to uk.sci.astronomy
Owen Brazell
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Default Leonid outburst??

Paul Clark wrote:
Did anyone get any unusual results?

Single observer counts already adjusted for cloud cover

02:30 - 03:30 ~ 6 (30% cover)
03:30 - 04:30 ~ 8 (50% cover)
04:30 - 05:30 ~ 16 (10% cover)

Location: Angelsey, NELM 6+. M35 clearly visible to direct vision, winter
Milky Way visible down past Canis Major.
No real evidence of an outburst unless they were too faint and quick for our
aged eyes

Paul, Don


Paul
in the 45 minutes I was watching from 4:40 to 5:20 I saw about 7
Leonids and two sporadics but think of it like this. I saw about a
quarter of the sky so assuming I had all sky coverage that would be 28
Leonids and the radiant was not at the zenith so the corrected rate
would probably be around 40 which is much more than normal. However I
also saw about 8 planes, two satellites and two rather nice sporadics,
and no fuzzies :-(



Owen