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Meet The Leonids

Posted by timothy on from the too-bad-about-the-mooning dept.

Kathy Miles writes "The Leonid meteor shower is promising to be a 'once in a lifetime event.' It's not hard to photograph meteors, a simple 35mm camera that you can lock open the shutter on works fine. Here's complete instructions for 35mm, video and digital cameras.And, on the same site is information such as lore and myth, best way to watch meteors and times and skymaps for all US timezones. Happy Meteor watching!" And Geert Barentsen writes "As the adrenaline for the final Leonid meteor storm (November 19th) rises, one site seems to do a call to everybody to count the meteor activity and help science. With a few thousand meteors predicted per hour, it's going to be a busy night for true geeks :-)" Kevin Smolkowski writes "For the second year in a row, NASA will have Live Coverage of the 2002 Leonid meteor storm on Monday. Perfect for those of you surrounded by city lights. The all night show is hosted by NASA astronomers. They'll offer observing tips, answer phone calls from sky watchers, and tour the skies with a video camera located at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama." Update: 11/18 22:40 GMT by T : McGravin writes "Everyone should also keep an ear on the extraplanetary visitors, too. I'm going to go add some ear-flaps to the tin foil helmet that protects my brain from them, so I can hear the meteors."

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  1. FP With a shout out to all my Leonids!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    FP With a shout out to all my Leonids!!! - YEAH!

  2. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    fp

  3. Black hole meteors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's impressive how slashdot rejects important news about the meteors detected entering a huge black hole. You can see pictures here and here, and more news here.

  4. who CARES about THE damn LEONIDS!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    IT'S those DAMN capitalist PIGS at GENERAL electric WHO are THE real EVILDOERS!!!!!!! GREEDY morons!!! TALK about SLAUGHTERING the G

  5. who CARES about THE damn LEONIDS!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    IT'S those DAMN capitalist PIGS at GENERAL electric WHO are THE real EVILDOERS!!!!!!! GREEDY morons!!! TALK about SLAUGHTERING the GOOSE that's LAYING the GOLDEN eggs.

    STONES can BREAK a SOLAR panel, BUT greed CAN wreck A life!

  6. Leonids would be cool by RatBastard · · Score: 0, Troll

    The Leonids would be cool if they were Open Source.

    --
    Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
  7. Re:Crappy Moon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    As has already been pointed out, there will be a full moon. Not only that, but at the peak viewing hours for the western continent inhabitants (especially those in North America) that pesky full moon will be almost exactly centered in the most active region for viewing.

    CNN has a picture of that crappy moon, surrounded by a bunch of Leonids!

  8. Re:Great from a plane by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    On what www page will he publish the pictures he will take?

    Sure, I've put them on my Yahoo page: click here