Leonids Reminder

Sunday, November 15. 2009

Remember that the annual Leonid Meteor shower peaks tomorrow tonight! Well... actually early Tuesday morning.

With the peak forecast for 15:10UT (05:10HST) on the17th, both the nights of the 17th and 18th offer good Leonid observing for those of us in Hawaii, with a slight advantage to the morning of the 17th. The Mauna Kea VIS will be open all night on the 17th into the morning of the 18th. There will be no significant Moon out on either night, offering good dark skies!

I have the 17th off from work, and thus will be able to spend all night out observing, maybe a good night of telescopic observation of fall deep sky objects, followed by some meteor watching as the radiant rises later in the night? If everything goes well I plan to setup at the substation site. VIS anyone?

Note- Unless otherwise noted times and positions are shown for the island of Hawai'i using Hawaiian Standard Time, 20°N latitude, 155°W longitude, for other locations most events listed will also be visible, but times and positions will vary, check a local reference or use a planetarium program to verify event details for your location

Posted by Andrew Cooper in Meteor Showers, Observing at 01:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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