From: Will Marchant, Northern Virginia 
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 02:17:18 -0500

I was out from 01:00 to 02:00 local time here in Northern Virginia.  I
saw a half dozen Leonids, four of which were "classic" and fairly bright
with moderately persistent trails.  My radio monitoring system shows
activity levels are down somewhat from yesterday at this time.  Take
that with some caution as the system has only been working for a half
week and is not calibrated...

We couldn't have had better weather here on the East coast, I think!
Have fun!



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From: Stephen Race, Manassas, VA
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 13:14:49 -0500

Another spectacular night in Virginia!  The skies were clear again and
excellent LM for Manassas, VA, ..LM = 5.2.  I observed from 12AM - 4:30AM
(5:00 - 9:30UT), Teff = 4.0 hrs..  The Leonids started slowly as the
radiant rose.  I also had much light pollution facing East.  By about
7:30UT, the Leonid rates started to pick up.  The period 8:00 to 9:00UT
showed 26 LEOs with two 1 minute periods which had 4 and 3 LEOs
respectively.  There we two occasions with multiple trails visable.  My Zhr
computation shows a Zhr of 110.  The Leonids remained active until I
stopped viewing.  There were no fireballs, but six with 2 to 5 second
trails.  Most were near the radiant, white, and very fast.  The highlight
of the evening was a sporadic bright green -4 fireball at 5:07UT.