From: Vink, Malaysia
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 18:54:37 +0800


I'm from Malaysia. I'm a student(17) and this is my first time I went
out to observe seriously. Before this, I have been watching some shower
but i didn't record it. This is my first report of a meteor shower and I
didn't use the report form set by the North American Meteor Network (NAMN)
because i don't know what is my
location and elevation, futhermore,I'm not familiar with it, maybe
sometimes later I'll use it. My english is not very good, if anything
goes wrong, sorry.

17/18 Nov       begin:10:00p.m.LT       end:6:00a.m.LT
Breaks:20 minutes (12:00-12:20 LT)
At first, the sky was cloudy, almost 95% was obscured. Until 11:00 it
was more clear (LM6) and I can saw a few stars(Gemini I think). The
first meteor appeared at 12:37LT and mag was about 3. The others were as
below:
Shower  -6  -5  -4  -3  -2  -1  0 +1  +2  +3  +4  +5  +6    total
LEO      0   0   0   2   3   1  3  4   7  4   6   1   2       33
SPO      0   0   0   0   2   0  0  0   1   0   0   0   0       3

>From 3:18 to 5:21 LT, the meteors appeared the most and very bright.

Meteor data:
#  Time(LT)   MAG  Colour   Shower
1.   12:37    3.0     G       LEO
2.   1:05    -2.O     W       SPO
3.   2:15     2.O     W       SPO
4.   3.18     1.O     G       LEO
5.   3.23     4.0     W       LEO
6.   3.26    -2.0     Y       LEO
7.   3.32    -3.0     W       LEO
8.   3.40    -2.0     W       SPO
9.   3.52    -3.0     G       LEO
10.  3.56    -2.0     Y       LEO
11.  3.57    -2.0     G       LEO
12.  4.05     2.0     Y       LEO
13.  4.05     4.0     G       LEO
14.  4.11     4.0     Y       LEO
15.  4.11     4.0     G       LEO
16.  4.11     5.0     O       LEO
17.  4.20     6.0     W       LEO
18.  4.21     6.0     W       LEO
19.  4.22     1.0     W       LEO
20.  4.23     0.0     O       LEO
21.  4.26     2.0     G       LEO
22.  4.31     1.0     G       LEO
23.  4.32     1.0     G       LEO
24.  4.34     4.0     W       LEO
25.  4.42     2.0     G       LEO
26.  4.49     4.0     W       LEO
27.  4.55     3.0     G       LEO
28.  5.08     0.0     G       LEO
29.  5.09     3.0     Y       LEO
30.  5.12     2.0     W       LEO
31.  5.15     1.0     Y       LEO
32.  5.21     4.0     W       LEO
33.  5.39     3.0     Y       LEO
34.  5.44     2.0     Y       LEO
35.  5.52     0.0     O       LEO
36.  5.56     2.0     W       LEO]

G=GREEN Y=YELLOW W=WHITE O=ORANGE

The shower is not as grand as I think. However, some meteors were very
bright and with its colourful tail behind. I took some of the photograph
but i don't think it is good. The film I use was ASA800-FUJI SUPERIA and
28mm-80mm zoom lens with CANON 500N.
I can't watch any storm here because too many clouds and the sky was not
clear enough. The clouds disappeared (sky obscured: 2%)and the sky went
clear at about 2:45 to 5:30. I felt a bit dissapointed because there
were not much meteors. Sorry because I send this report late. I went to
sleep after i went home. I typed this report on the evening 6:00p.m.LT.
thanks. 

p.s. I'll be going out again tonight.