Hi folks, I got up at 0200 and watched from Farmington. I didn't yawn till dawn like Joe. I saw three in an hour and went to bed when some clouds rolled in. I did log onto NASA TV online, which was doing a special Leonids broadcast, and it was more interesting, and a lot warmer, than looking through thin clouds at the near full moon. I sure am glad I went out to Little Sahara last year! Bob St. Marie
Unfortunately, because of my work schedule and school, I couldn't migrate to southern utah to see the Leonids. I'm currently looking for a regular job, and will do the night school thing once I'm well established in that. I did go out in my back patio in North Ogden, bundled up in my parka and fleece beanie, but soon got tired (I blame school) and soon went to bed. Hopefully, the next time such an event comes by I will be more prepared. I wish I would have remembered the Mountain Dew I had in the fridge. That would have kept me out there a while longer. I'm sure there will be local pictures that I can look at. Hopefully there will be a next time. Joe RStmarie@aol.com wrote:Hi folks, I got up at 0200 and watched from Farmington. I didn't yawn till dawn like Joe. I saw three in an hour and went to bed when some clouds rolled in. I did log onto NASA TV online, which was doing a special Leonids broadcast, and it was more interesting, and a lot warmer, than looking through thin clouds at the near full moon. I sure am glad I went out to Little Sahara last year! Bob St. Marie --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site
Dear Friends, Just a quick note to say thank you to all who responded to my request for quotes. When I got back to SLC I used what I could in my story. A copy of the article is posted at this site on the Internet. Please let me know if it doesn't show up when you click on the line, and I'll send a text copy. I took the photo of Delicate Arch somewhere between 3 and 4 a.m., strictly by the light of the full moon. It should have had a few great big meteors blazing above it! But no such luck. For anyone who's interested, I think the settings were about 2 minutes exposure, f1.8, Kodak 400 Max color film. Best wishes, Joe http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,450015562,00.html Joe Bauman science & military reporter Deseret News bau@desnews.com (801) 237-2169
Nothing to shout about from my back yard in Lindon. I started about 2:50 and saw a couple of dozen, mostly unimpressive (with a couple of exceptions) until about 3:40 or so when the clouds rolling in started to obstruct a large part of the sky overhead. I did manage to get my wife and youngest daughter out of bed for a time however, so I count that much a success! I also found it very interesting to hear other people outside at that time; seems the press did a good job getting the word out. BTW, if you haven't discovered them yet, the Carhart insulated bib overalls (intended no doubt for the farmer making the 4am milking run) available at CAL Ranch or IFA are a GREAT way to help stay warm on these chilly nights. FWIW, Rich __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com
I headed out to Skull Valley around midnight and was promptly met with 6 very impressive meteors within 15 minutes, all very long and except for two blood red "horizon huggers" that streaked over the Lake all were a brilliant green, and were either right above us or just to the north and east above the rising bowl of the Big Dipper!! The Big Dipper seemed to get picked on quite a bit during the entire night, but from 12:30-3:00am it was pretty quiet except for a few (maybe 10) faint Leonids and about 5 "sporadics". Around 3:00am we saw around 4-6 Leonids that dropped from just below Leo's sickle to the mountains to the east and south, giving a literal impression of 'falling stars'! The peak had definitely arrived around 3:35am until 3:55am then it dropped off dramatically, they're were not that many fireballs but the faint ones were plenty and often, many coming in sets of 3-5 at a time streaking almost in formation sometimes and quite a few meteors would streak from the radiant in opposite directions at the same time. I noticed that there was much more activity closer to the radiant than far away from it, many of the Leonids were short and not especially bright but for at least 15 minutes it was definitely a "shower" High thin clouds arrived around 3am but they seemed to open up for pretty much the entire time of the peak and there was always a full field of view unobstructed, you just had to move around from time to time. The Moonlight I'm sure wiped out all my photos, and I haven't looked at the video I shot yet, I'm not too hopeful, but we'll see. All in all the best one I've seen, but that's only because I was stuck in SLC under cloud cover the last two years, this definitely was no storm as predicted but the best shower I've seen and the predicted peak was pretty close to being dead on. Howard __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com
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