I honestly forgot about it. I woke up this morning at 2 a.m. because the furnace kicked on and made my room too warm so I wandered outside to cool off and look up. The sky was beautiful, Leo had fully cleared the mountains, but 10 minutes of looking saw no meteors. It was worth it to be reminded that Spring stars are already up, and Orion looked magnificent. I assume that's Saturn in Leo? Shows you how out of it I am right now... --- Chuck Hards <chuckhards@yahoo.com> wrote:
Thanks for the reply to the test, Patrick. Hopefully this one makes it through, too.
I went out from about 1 am to 1:50 am, and from my suburban location saw one very bright Leonid (between mag. 1 & 2) and at least 2 dim ones near the limit of visibility. All very close to the radiant and short trains, as would be expected. No sporadics seen at all.
I also thought that I might have detected just a hint of auroral activity, but it was impossible to tell for sure thanks to the light pollution.
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