From: Richard Wade, Pretoria, South Africa 
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 21:16:43 +0200


Preliminary results from a clear night with city-brightened cloud from
Pretoria/Johannesburg region in South Africa. Long. [28  24  31.5
East    decimal     28.40875
Lat.    25  52  36.2    South  decimal   - 25.876722    1539m above sea
level  Time zone +2].

After the moon had set at 1am local time a crowd of 50 people watched the
skies till dawn at 6am.

The first leonids arrived as soon as the radiant was above the horizon
which was the same time of 1am. Approximately 6 fireballs seen in total.

The counts gradually increased to 3 leonids per second average by 4am. The
sky was hampered by reflected light and reports from more west in darker
skies indicated more fireballs and more leonids than seen over the skies at
Nkwe (Johannesburg/Pretoria).

It is clouded over a bit this evening (21h13 local time).

Magnitudes ranged between -5 to +5.