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Leonids Meteor Shower-November 17th, 2001 |
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| View looking Northeast. Click image for hi-resolution image. | ||||||||||
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| Shortly after an exploding Meteor lit up the ground. Click image for hi-resolution image. | ||||||||||
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| Expanding Smoke Trail. Click image for hi-resolution image. | ||||||||||
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| Note the looping trail below expanding main cloud. Orion is in upper right. Click image for hi-resolution image. | ||||||||||
| Smoke Trail |
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Shortly after the Meteor burst |
Cloud spreading and taking on a "cork screw"
appearance. RIGHT: Smoke Trail to the South Eastern horizon just below Orion. The sky is getting lighter from the coming sunrise. |
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| Meteor close ups | ||||||||||
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| Some of the more interesting Meteors. Note the smoke coming off the head of the Meteor in the upper middle picture. The Meteor in the lower right appears to be emerging from the Cloud Burst. | The "object" in the bottom right Picture appears to be a pulsating "something". Similar objects all going the same direction, South and away from Leo, appeared on other frames. |
| Equipment used | About the "Trip" | |||||||
| The photographs were taken with a Pentax 67 Medium Format Camera with a 35mm f/4.5 Fisheye Lens. Film used was Fujichrome 400F pushed to 600 iso. Exposures ranged from 5 minutes to 15 minutes. | The Leonids Meteor Shower was recorded from the "Bridge Overlook" near milepost 29 on Washington State Highway 504 which heads East toward Mt. St. Helens. The weather warmed up from 37 degrees upon our arrival, to a balmy 45 degrees by the time we departed at 4:30am. The breeze even felt warm, but it was mostly blocked by trees to the North. One reliable estimate was that at it's peek, visible Meteors were occurring at a rate of 4,000 per hour. | |||||||
| Greg Babcock's Astronomy Website | Leonids Meteor Shower 2001 |