Leonid outburst??

I was in wonderfully cloudless Northumberland - or should I say fairly
cloudless at 22:00...

Sorry but I was on holiday and had consumed just a tad too much liquid
to be setting an alarm for that time of morning, I do enough getting up
at 05:00 for work to want to do so when I get the chance of sleeping
in... No dedication I can hear you all cry...

Anyway, as I went out to get my bearings at 20:00 there was an enormous
meteor shot from Perseus all the way to the tail end of Ursa Major,
taking about a second to do so and leaving an enormous trail as well as
having a huge halo of sparks around it...
Sorry to not be able to explain it better, and even more so to not have
a photo - which would have needed a major coincidence of pointing the
camera in the right direction at the right time and having the shutter
open too... need I say more!

Just as well I hadn't set the alarm to rise early anyway as there was
total cloud cover and a good dusting of hard frozen snow when I got up
for a leak at 06:00 !!

Nick now home...

"Paul Clark" wrote in message
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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

Got up 3.45am. Dripping noises from the roof raised suspicions. Peeked out
window. P*****g rain. Went back to bed 3.46am.