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10 Tips to Maximize Your View of the Leonid Meteor Shower
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted: 07:00 am ET
07 November 2002
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5
Go Out Early
The peaks for much of Europe
and eastern North America are expected to come just before dawn on Tuesday,
Nov. 19 (0400 UT in Europe and 5:30 a.m. ET, 2:30 a.m. PT in North America).
But forecast times can be off by an hour or so, and bursts of activity can come
at any time.
So get set up early to allow
your eyes a full 30 minutes to adjust to the darkness and some extra time in
case the peak arrives early. Then watch activity increase and subside while
building inexorably toward the pinnacle. You won’t know when the core of the
burst hits until it is gone.
Last year I thought I’d
seen the peak, at the predicted time, and because I was cold I went inside.
Next morning, I learned I had probably missed the most intense part of the show.
Radiant, schmadiant,
in Tip #6 …
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