Up in the Great White North near Ottawa, I saw them every few
seconds, sometimes 5 or more at once, some with trails that hung
there for 30 seconds. I went about 55k SW of Ottawa to get some
darker skies. There must have been a hundred of us at this park. Got
lots of practice bending over backwards between tending my cameras.
Tom
On Sunday, November 18, 2001 at 12:56, Mickey Trageser
<olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote re "Re: [OM] Leonids" saying:
> Garth, I don't think that there were that many. I had read somewhere
(the
> links posted here) that it was 1500/hr in '66, with predictions as high
as
> 8k/hr for this episode. Of course, we won't see all that are hitting.
We
> have a limited view on the ground, and some just aren't big enough
to be
> visible at ground level. I'd guess we saw around 100 in the time from
4:45
> to 5:15. Some were brilliant and long, and some were dim and
small. I'm
> hopeful to have more than stars on my exposures! When you point
the 24mm at
> the sky, the coverage isn't really all that wide....
>
> -Mickey
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Garth Wood" <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 12:39 PM
> Subject: RE: [OM] Leonids
> > Wish I'd seen 1966 (I think it was). 150,000 impacts/hour! And at
the
> last minute, I decided not to take any photos -- not familiar enough
with
> the deep-sky site or with doing this type of photography, and wanted
to
> actually see the show rather than screw around with a tripod and
camera in
> total darkness.
>
>
>
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