18 november 2001
Leonids 2001
by Lorenzo Comolli

See also 1999 Leonids shower images

Year 2001 allowed american and asian observers a great show, as was allowed to europeans in 1999. But in Europe there wasn't a big meteor activity and the few meteors was on the morning of 18 november. As a joke I've decided to image the Leonids with a digital camcorder, and incredibly I've found 11 meteors in abour 1,5 hours of film. Some of these are visible in this page. The digital camcorder, a Panasonic DS-15, was set up to do 1/12s exposures, and thanks to it's sensitivity, I've imaged meteors with a negative magnitude. With some computer elaboration also dimmer stars are made visible. The location is Tradate (VA, Italy), a light-polluted town.

5.30 UT leonid
Static image (sum of 5 frames)

GIF animation
5.10 UT leonid
Static image (sum of 9 frames for the leonid, of 200 frames for the stars, at top are visible the stars of Ursa Major tail)
GIF animation
4.44 UT leonid
Static image (sum of 5 frames for the leonid, of 200 frames for the stars, at top are visible the stars of Ursa Major tail)
GIF animation

 
 

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