Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Nov 16-17

[CentaurZ]

The annual Leonid Meteor Shower should already be underway. It is expected to peak during the night of 2020 NOV 16-17. Its radiant is in the constellation Leo. That is the direction toward which the meteor tails point, but the meteors are equally likely to appear anywhere in your sky. The Leonids are debris from the periodic comet 55P Tempel-Tuttle.

The Leonids vary considerably each year in their rates. At the peak, sharp-eyed observers may see as few as ten meteors per hour or as many as a hundred, although in exceptional years this can reach the thousands. This year the expectation is for around 10 to 15 per hour.

The real show begins after Leo rises around midnight and intensifies until morning twilight. At the shower’s peak the waxing crescent Moon should not provide interference.

Descriptions of the shower or perhaps even lucky photos would be welcome additions to this thread. 

[Paul M]

Thanks for the table.

I've never made much effort with the Leonids, I know, I've missed some spectacular meteors!!

The Geminids are my favorite and I see from your table that the Moon is out of the way this year.

[Cleetus]

Saw a really bright one last night when I was out on the patio having a smoke. About 10.30pm.

[wxsatuser]

A Leonid via GRAVES radar on 143.050MHz, yesterday at approx 11:23UTC.

Going by the 10sec ticks this lasted around 50secs.
Snap shots are taken every 30secs so did not quite get it in one shot but two.

RX was an ICOM 7100 feeding into Spectran software, antenna 21 element log periodic.