We had similar weather in Landers, with around 200 people at
our observing site. For most of the evening, we had variable clouds, and
at around 1:00 clouds came in from the W and S, leaving only a sucker hole
around Gemini. During the next hour, though, the clouds receded, leaving
the E, N, and S clear for the rest of the night. Activity seemed to peak
around 3:00, with maybe 20 per minute, qualifying as storm level. I ended
up shooting two rolls of P1600 at f/2.8 x 5 minutes with 50mm and 20mm
lenses.
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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 6:27
AM
Subject: Re: [APML] Meteor Storm
I don't know why, but until about 1:30 we were
completely socked in with clouds... then as if on cue, the clouds vanished and
the meteor display took off... best time was between 2:00 and 4:00 PST ...
within five minutes of each other two very bright meteors tore through Polaris
at 3:15 more or less... might have this on film since I was shooting
circumpolar all night with one of the cameras. Beautiful display with meteors
arriving in unison... there were times when it was at least a meteor every
second. Finally as dawn approached the clopuds came rolling back in again...
someone upstairs was very kind to us.
Tony
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