Leonids '98
 I observed one of most famous meteor showers of "Leonids" in early morning of Nov 18. This shower had extremely expected that may shows us plenty of meteors (some hundreds per hour !) this year at around Eastern Asia. But unfortunately this prediction proved wrong, the meteor stream was occured at the Atlantic and Europe.
Though I couldn't enjoy Leonids stream, detected over 150 meteors for five hours in that night.

Specially, I suceeded in taking a meteoric trail of bolide over -6 magnitude appeared on 4:14 JST.


A Leonids meteor & the zodiacal light
Leonids meteor & zodiacal light
Nov 18 1998, 3:55 JST(+0900), 8min. Exp.
f=16mm fish-eye, Aperture F2.8
Fujicolor Super G Ace 800
At Ooizumi vil., Yamanashi pref.

A Leonids meteor appeared in the lower right-hand side, and you can see the very dimmed zodiacal light in the eastern sky.

Apparent alteration of meteoric trail of a Leonids bolide
Change of bolide
Nov 18 1998, 4:14 JST(+0900), continuously exposured
f=50mm, Aperture F1.4
Konicacolor GX3200
Mounted on tripod
At Ooizumi vil., Yamanashi pref.

1. 20sec. exposured from 5sec. later of bolide appearance
2. 20sec. exposured from 30sec. later
3. 30sec. exposured from 90sec. later
4. 30sec. exposured from 160sec. later
5. 40sec. exposured from 250sec. later
6. 60sec. exposured from 340sec. later



Animation GIF of meteoric trail

250×155 pixels, 250KB



Meteoric trail on Sep 11 1999

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