[AZ-Observing] Re: Upcoming Leonid meteors

Well duh, I should have thought of that.  Can you see *any* shower meteors when 
the radiant is completely below the horizon?  My one very negative experience 
was when I was in Namibia during the Perseid shower of 2004.  The radiant 
culminated only about 5 degrees above the northern horizon.  I saw serveral 
meteors per hour at that time  You wouldn't have even known there was a meteor 
shower.

Tom

---- Steve Coe <stevecoe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> Sentinel attendees;
> 
> I did a few minutes checking with a planetarium program and the Sickle of
> Leo and Saturn will not be up until midnight, so the meteors we will see
> will be coming over the eastern horizon, hopefully a long way over the
> horizon.  It certainly could be fun.  
> 
> Clear Skies to us all;
> Steve Coe
> 
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> 
> ---- Brian Skiff <bas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> >... two-revolution dust trail of comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle around 2006 Nov.
> > 19d04h50m UT, with a FWHM of 38 min...
> 
> That's 9:50 p.m. MST on the Saturday night of the Sentinel Stargaze.  Not
> bad timing.
> 
> Tom
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