Observations of the Leonid Meteors, 1904

Abstract

OBSERVATIONS by the writer this year go to show that the intensity was much below that of last. Briefly, the nights of November 12 and 13 were heavily overcast, but the night of November 14 and early morning of November 15 were fortunately clear. The display lasted about an hour, say from 12.30 until 1.30 a.m., maximum 1 o'clock a.m. (local times), hourly rate, low, 20 to 25. Bright meteors, however, continued to appear at intervals up to 3 a.m., when clouds coming on stopped further observation. A couple of hours' watch before and after midnight of November 15 gave only two Leonids, while another two hours' watch on the night of November 16 showed the radiant, which was sharply defined the previous nights, at 150° + 23°, near Zeta, to be quite quiescent. Other radiants active were:—