Leonid meteor shower

Other topics that are not covered in the sections above.
olive
Andalucia Guru
Posts: 4500
Joined: Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:13 pm
Location: Poniente, Granada

Leonid meteor shower

Postby olive » Mon Nov 15, 2021 9:11 pm

This Wednesday to Friday I believe.

Anyone know if we can see them from Andalucia and if so what general direction to be looking?

gavilan
Andalucia Guru
Posts: 2164
Joined: Sat Apr 08, 2006 11:59 am
Location: Alcaucin

Re: Leonid meteor shower

Postby gavilan » Mon Nov 15, 2021 9:31 pm

also ... think there is a lunar eclipse friday morning but dont know if we will be able to see that either

User avatar
Enrique
Andalucia Guru
Posts: 9488
Joined: Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:47 am
Location: Mytchett/Alcala La Real

Re: Leonid meteor shower

Postby Enrique » Mon Nov 15, 2021 10:02 pm

Ho olive,

You can work it out from the following link............Looking at the Big Dipper at 04:00 the other night I'd say viewing Leo constellation was in NE direction.

https://earthsky.org/constellations/leo ... tellation/


Have a read through this one..................for relation to Big Dipper.

https://littleastronomy.com/how-to-find ... tellation/

Not a good position from my house but will put camera out ....thanks for heads up.......
All my best learning experiences start with a problem I need to solve.

User avatar
knowal
Resident
Posts: 1911
Joined: Fri Aug 27, 2010 9:35 pm
Location: England

Re: Leonid meteor shower

Postby knowal » Mon Nov 15, 2021 11:37 pm

When I was in Spain I found it best in the few hours just before dawn. Some left smoke!

olive
Andalucia Guru
Posts: 4500
Joined: Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:13 pm
Location: Poniente, Granada

Re: Leonid meteor shower

Postby olive » Tue Nov 16, 2021 12:51 am

Thanks :thumbup:

olive
Andalucia Guru
Posts: 4500
Joined: Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:13 pm
Location: Poniente, Granada

Re: Leonid meteor shower

Postby olive » Thu Nov 18, 2021 9:38 am

Limited success!

Went out last night armed with this info and a free app ( starchart) . Very bright moonlit night so difficult to make out the stars. However located the dippers and thus Regulus. With that a bright meteorite streaked across the sky! Kept watching for a while but no more.

User avatar
Wicksey
Andalucia Guru
Posts: 5879
Joined: Mon Sep 20, 2004 1:21 pm
Location: Axarquia coast

Re: Leonid meteor shower

Postby Wicksey » Thu Nov 18, 2021 10:30 am

What time was that Olive? It was a very bright moon last night and I think we had a bit of cloud cover when I was closing up for bed.

olive
Andalucia Guru
Posts: 4500
Joined: Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:13 pm
Location: Poniente, Granada

Re: Leonid meteor shower

Postby olive » Thu Nov 18, 2021 10:48 am

About midnight. There was so much light from the moon that it was like daylight!


Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 24 guests