[MeekOneGOP]

Would you believe that is the ONLY picture I can find of last nights Leonid Meteor shower? Sooooo. . .here are links to PRIOR shower shows!:

2000 LEONID METEOR SHOWER

1998 LEONID METEOR SHOWER

[Grampa7030]

I got up at 2AM to watch it in Poulsbo, WA. Beautiful, clear but cold evening. This was truly spectacular and we once saw seven in a period of ten seconds. My wife and I watched for about 45 minutes and it never really let up from a rate of about 5 - 10 per minute (that we could see) in all areas of the sky.

[stilts]

Truly a beautiful show. The long ones with the shimmering tails were incredible. I was watching along the coast in Orange County California and even with the light "pollution" we could a couple every minute. Quite an awe inspiring sight.

[JustPiper]

I waited weeks for it, researched were best to go outside Chicago and was anxiosuly waiting to leave on a two hour trek to join a farm party from the Adler Planetrium. then bam, about 7pm in rolls the fog blanketed by extreme clouds everywhere and I was so disappointed I could cry at this lost chance of a lifetime.

By the way I have family minutes from mount Wilson! Those lucky gazsers ;(

[Winged Elf]

Woke up, walked outside, saw four of 'em. Figured "big deal", walked back inside and went back to sleep. About the only thing I got out of it was that my cold got ten times worse. >:(

[kcat]

I watched in Alabama beginning at about 4:30 a.m.. Many of them left flourescent green trails. It was absolutely AWESOME!!!!!! You couldn't look at one without another appearing in the corner of your eye. One of the coolest things I have ever seen.

[TEXASPROUD]

We had solid cloud cover in Dallas, last night, just my luck.

[GeorgeWashington777]

I went outside here in eastern Washington at about 12:00 or 12:30am and looked up and seen about three awesome ones, one had a tail that covered half the sky. Went in grabbed a blanket and pillows and sat outside for about 15 minutes and didn't see anymore. I'm sure it was great a little later.

[Coleus]

I woke up at 5 AM, skies clear, could see stars, and that's is all I saw. What a waste of time. I was glad I was able to go back to sleep.

[tubebender]

Partial Vanity Warning. I wandered my wooded lot from about 10:30 till 11:30 looking in the east as told. Low colds but stars were visible over head. Came in and out for a while while watching NASA. Fially Mzz Mitzi Adams told me I was looking in the wrong place so I srepped out on the deck and looked due south and there was Orion bright and clear. It was 12:30 PDT here in Eureka Ca. as I slipped off my clothes , grabbed a glass of wine and jumped in the hot tub. It was 1:30 and at 1:35 I saw my first meteor. THAT WAS IT. for the next hour I sipped and watched. Nothing Nada Zilch! 2:30 I crawled out lookin like a albino prune and checked on Mzz Mitzi as she was ranting on about all the neat streaks and at that time I realized this was the moon landing all over again and she was laying in her sleeping bag on the back lot of Disney Studios. I did finally see about 25 in about 15 minutes before clouds shut it down.

[The Game Hen]

The chicks and I had a great view here in Charleston from 3:30 - 6:00. Getting to church on time was murder!

And the Gamecocks beat the Tigers! Man it just doesn't get any better than this!

[Huck]

My wife and I went to a nearby state park, to get away from the stretlights, etc, and watched for two hours until it finally fizzled out around 6am EST. We just kept saying WOW!, THERE'S ANOTHER ONE!, OOOH!, etc.

And all day today I've been thinking bout how much fun we had last night. It was chilly, about 34 degrees, but we were dressed for it and had a great time. Sorry for the folks who had clouds. I am very thankful we were able to see it all on a clear night.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Here's a Link

[Ron C.]

"..minutes from mount Wilson!"

Mount Wilson is a terrible place to view meteors, particularly the smaller Leonids - way, way to much light pollution from the LA basin. Time, and place of viewing is critical - we saw Leonids into the tens of thousands.

We drove up to high elevation in the Sierras. The ‘peak' activity was later than the 2AM estimate - but had a great two-hour plus preview - and the encore continued all the way home, of course much less visible at lower elevations through dirty air, light pollution and haze. As I drove up, I wondered if the long trip up and back was going to be worth it. It was more than that - it was fantastic beyond anything I had expected - and beat the ‘estimates' of 12-13 per minute by a long shot.

By 2:50AM, things got hot - and ran that way for about 45 minutes at an average of about 3 per-second (180 a minute) - with a few blasts of over 200 per minute. We were astounded that meteors were raining all around us - basically from horizon to horizon in all directions simultaneously, accented at times with normal meteor activity of non-Leonid variety, and one corkscrewing re-entry of some space junk. Some trails covered much of the sky, others were a mere blip - and some were ‘skippers' which hit the atmosphere bounced out, then re-entered a millisecond later to burn up. The range of colors was surprising - mostly a bright white blazing head with sparkling tails of lesser white - but some ran light pink, others faint green - but a few were a more pronounced red or green.

[firebrand]

Saw them from the Sheep Meadow in Central Park. (The Sheep Meadow is closed, you say? Ha ha ha ha ha.) Too much light in the sky, though. We probably saw only the brightest ones, about one every two minutes or so. Still it was great fun, all hundred or so intrepid NYC nature lovers out there together, determined enough to wend their way through the park at night..

[VietVet]

Down here in Marco Island, Florida, I personally counted 332 meteors all night, more than 2/3 of them between 4:00 and 5:25, and including 3 that were visible in the east even as dawn lit up the sky. I know I missed many, because I couldn't watch the whole sky at once, and I kept having to go back inside (coffee will do that to me).

[poweqi]

I was up at 2:00 and between FR and the boathouse my neighbors on both sides of me had their boats broken into! I didn't see a thing. Neighbors, one over, were out watching the skys too. I got to bed at 4:00. The light show was fabulous!!! My boat didn't get broken into 'cause I don't have one!!!

[kidd]

The baby woke up at 5:00 here in Connecticut. Me, my wife and my daughter went out to look. Saw about 20 meteors in two minutes. It was breezy and in the mid 20s out - too cold to hold my interest at that hour. The most interesting thing we saw was the neighbor's kid coming home at that time.

[realwoman]

We went up to a small local lake, only had to share with one very nice, older man, and the show was fantastic! Couldn't decide where to look as they were everywhere, all over the sky! Definitely worth waiting up for and the drive.

[eggman]

I was out for a while about 1:30 here in NE Ohio and saw some pretty awesome grazers with vivid tails. Went back out about 4:00 and saw quite a few in about 30 minutes but none as vivid as the first few.

While I was out I heard a coyote howl, which got the neighbor's dogs going, which started another neighbor's rooster crowing, which got my rooster started. They then proceeded to chat for about 5 minutes before they went back to sleep. Other than that, it was a pretty quiet night around here.