Word: leonid
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Attempts to secure photographs of the metros met with little success, for, although a large portion of the sky was covered, the trail of but one Leonid was found on the plates. As a certain meteor seen shortly before 3 o'clock does not appear on the plates exposed at that time, it is at present believed possible to photography only meteors slowly moving, or of exceptional brilliancy...
...Observatory also succeeded in photographing the same Leonid with two cameras a mile apart. By the parallex method, using this mile as a base line, it will be possible to obtain the height of the radiant...
Over four hundred meteors were observed Thursday night at the Harvard Observatory, but only three hundred and fifty of these were Leonids, the rest consisting of the ordinary shooting stars. Comparatively few Leonids were observed until 2 o'clock, but after that the showers became thicker, and between 4.30 and 5 the majority of the number appeared. The color of the meteors was principally a light green, but in some cases they were blue and red. The trial of one unusually large one was visible for fifteen minutes. About three dozen photographs were taken and at least one Leonid...