From: Vilas Deshpande, Pune, India 
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 23:58:31 +0530


LEONID METEORS 2002 FROM Pune (India)

          On the event of Leonide meteor shower, from 17th to 19th/20th Nov. Ama
ture Astronomers of Jyotirvidya Parisanstha were in Tamhini 65 K.M. away from We
stside of Pune City. On 17th/18th Following Amature Astronomers. were present fo
r the event Sameer Godbole, Vilas Deshpande, Devdatta Mulye, Sukhada Vaidya, Ket
ki Rahalkar, Kalyani Date, Swapnil Gholap, Sayli Avachat these members observed
the shower and following observation were made:

Date: 17/18 November 2002. Timing in UT

20.30HrsUT to 21.30Hrs UT         05 Leonids and      02 Sporadic

21.30Hrs UT to 22.30Hrs UT        10 Leonids and      03 Sporadic

22.30Hrs UT to 23.30Hrs UT        07 Leonids             01 Sporadic

 23.30Hrs UT to 00.30Hrs UT       12 Leonids

On the next day i.e. 18th/19th Amature Astronomers Sameer Godbole, Vilas Deshpan
de, Suhas Gurjar, Devdatta Mulye, Sukhada Vaidya, Ketki Rahalkar,Ketki Matkar .
Kalyani Date, Swapnil Gholap, Sayli Avachat, Vinod Bartakee, Priyadarshani, Balk
rishna Mahajan (All Member of Jyotirvidya Parisanstha Pune [India]) these member
s observed the Skies from 0000Hrs to 0600Hrs IST and following observation were
made:

Date: 18/19 November 2002.All timing UT

>From 18.30HrsUT to 19.30Hrs UT       02 Leonids and      01 Sporadic

          19.30HrsUT to 20.30Hrs UT       05 Leonids and      02 Sporadic

          20.30HrsUT to 21.30Hrs UT       20 Leonids and      05 Sporadic

          21.30Hrs UT to 22.30Hrs UT      50 Leonids and      02 Sporadic

          22.30Hrs UT to 23.30Hrs UT      83 Leonids and      05 Sporadic

          23.30Hrs UT to 00.30Hrs UT    106 Leonids             01 Sporadic

          We could see around 266 Leonids and 16 sporadic meteors overnight.
Besides visual observations we had our camera's ready for capturing meteors.
Around 0510Hrs meteor of  -2 mag snaped by me above in the constellation of
Canis Major.  During the observation under poor limiting conditions (limiting
magnitude around 5 to 5.5) we found a clear sky. A few fireballs was also seen...

               On 19th/20th Amature Astronomers of Jyotirvidya Parisanstha
Sameer Godbole and Vilas Deshpande      observed  the sky.

>From 18.30HrsUT to 19.30Hrs UT       02 Leonid and 05 Sporadic

          19.30HrsUT to 20.30Hrs UT       06 Leonid and 08 Sporadic

Were observed. After 20.30Hrs UT it was unable to observe it because of
cloudy sky.