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 November 17th, 2001 |
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UPPER LEFT: Later in the night, activity in the North seemed to intensify. This
view is looking toward the Northeast. his is a cropped UPPER RIGHT: Shortly after an exploding Meteor lit up the ground... LOWER LEFT: the expanding Smoke Trail took on a "Corkscrew" appearance. The Constellation Orion serves as a scale. LOWER RIGHT: The expanding and dissipating Smoke Trail from exploding Meteor. The belt of Orion in the upper right. Note the looping smoke trail below the main cloud. All images on this page were taken using a Pentax 6x7 Medium Format Camera and a 35mm Fisheye Lens. |
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RIGHT: Shortly after the Meteor burst.
CENTER is cloud beginning to dissipate and taking on a "cork screw"
appearance. RIGHT: the cloud has traveled to the South Eastern
horizon just below Orion. The sky is getting lighter from the coming sunrise
and it seems to illuminate the cloud. |
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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. |
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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.
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. One reliable estimate was that at it's peek, visible Meteors were occurring at a rate of 4,000 per hour.
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Comets & Meteors Showers on this Website |
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Comet Ikeya-Zhang,
Ap-20, 2002 |
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