I've never seen a storm before, myself. Depending on who you believe and whether the peaks occur at night for us, predictions of rates between 2,500 and 16,000 per hour are being postulated.
I would compare it to rain. If you're out looking, and you see a few a minute, it's only "sprinkling meteors" so it's a shower. If you see more than you can count and would be getting soaked were it rain, then it's a storm. :-) If the 16,000 prediction is close (unfortunately it's predicted that peak won't occur until daylight for USA, but it could be wrong), that works out to over 260 a minute. The smaller peak predicted for the early morning hours on Sunday is more on the order of 2500 - 5000 per hour. Still not bad. At 5000, that's still one per second. It's a guessing game for both the scientists and us. Tom Original Message ----- From: "Amita Guha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 6:53 AM Subject: RE: shooting Leonids - any tips? > Thanks, Tom! Good shooting to you too! > > Now here's a question...how do I tell if it's a > storm? > > --Amita > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
