I am an MS junkie, and an expert. Most MSs don’t come even close to living up to the hype. But my first ever MS (the Perseids in west Texas 14 years ago) were stunning beyond all possible description. Saw them completely by accident, and didn’t even know it was an MS. This is the event, however, that turned me into an MS junkie. There were between 5 and 10 shooting stars every single minute for at least two hours. I now regularly plan vacations around MSs and that is no exagerration.
The Leonid shower back in 2002 or 2003 which ever was the big year certainly did
And I would have loved to see the one in the sixties
But if you really are an expert, maybe you can answer a question I always wondered.
How far can you see a Meteor?
For example if I see a Meteor here in NJ, if my parents 300 miles away in upstate NY were looking in the same place in the sky (like Leo) would they see the same Meteor? How about my cousin 1000 miles away in Georgia?