[Credit and Copyright: Sean M. Sabatini]
This is hard to believe. Just sayin’
I saw this on top of Ikoma mountain near Osaka in 2001 and it was unreal. Literally a meteor every second or more.
(Perhaps this is worth repeating to the entire ping list?)
I love receiving these pings everyday and just discovered a to enjoy these pics throughout the day.
If you have a smartphone download an app called “IF by IFTTT.” After you register and configure look for a recipe titled “NASA’s picture of the day delivered to your inbox.”
Select that recipe and when you wake up each morning the NASA pic of the day will be the new wall paper on your smart phone.
This app does a lot of other things, but this one is very sweet.
“taken in 2001, a year when there was a very active Leonids shower. At that time, Earth was moving through a particularly dense swarm of sand-sized debris from Comet Tempel-Tuttle, so that meteor rates approached one visible streak per second. “
I hadn’t even seen this thread when I posted on your other more recent one regarding the spectacular Leonid storm I saw some years ago. Might well have been the same 2001 event.
Sky & Telescope Magazine merely says this about about the 2015 shower...
Tuesday, November 17 (2015):
The typically weak Leonid meteor shower is likely to peak late tonight: from about midnight local time until dawn Wednesday morning. Good luck.