Fremont Peak

by Akkana Peck


Richard Ozer wrote:

The peak from my perspective seemed to stretch from 2:00 to almost 3:30. Also, I noticed different regions of the sky would get different amounts of activity at different times. One 10 minute period had alot of activity in Orion, the next in Auriga, the next shooting North directly from Leo. Did anyone else notice this kind of thing, or did I imagine it?

Derek writes:

I was up at FP and I think I noticed the same thing. I had a hard time because I always seemed to be looking the wrong way when the "good" ones hit.

Definitely (again from Fremont Peak). For a long time, the best activitity seemed to be in the south, from Orion's feet over to the radio towers. Later, suddenly the best activity switched to the handle of the Big Dipper for a while, and then later, there were a bunch of wonderful slow-short-trailers right in the body of Leo near the radiant.

Another odd thing was the large number of "anti Leonids" early on, meteors moving toward the radiant (often right after a true Leonid, so you could see a fainter meteor streaking back just parallel to the trail still remaining from a bright Leonid).

I guessed the peak as stretching from about 1:40 to 2:40, though the trail off after that wasn't sharp at all -- we continued to see bright meteors out the car windows until we got home at 4:30, even deep within the San Jose sky glow.