| vi) Where can we get more specialized information? Check out the links on Lew Gramer's 'MeteorObs' website at: http://www.meteorobs.org/storms.html
For more information on visual meteor observing, check out: http://www.imo.net/visual/major01.html
For those after more photographic information, check out: http://www.imo.net/photo/handbook/summary.pdf
For those radio buffs interested in trying some meteor recording by radio
means, check out Shelby Ennis' website "High Speed Meteor Scatter and JT44
EME" at http://www.qsl.net/w8wn/hscw/hscw.html
Click on the "Hot News" icon for details on Leonids by radio. Even
if you're not into the radio hobby, check out the cool graphics! Also, check out
the IMO radio info at http://www.imo.net/radio/index.html
Links to other radio meteor sites can be found at http://www.imo.net/radio/other_sites.html
Details on the International Project for Radio Meteor Observation can be
found at http://homepage2.nifty.com/~baron/leo02p.htm
An excellent book for reading about the Leonids is 'The Heavens on Fire: The
Great Leonid Meteor Storms' by Mark Littmann, published by Cambridge University
Press.
An interesting paper on the history of the Leonids that can be printed off
from the web is 'The Leonid Meteor Shower: Historical Visual Observations' by
Peter Brown, available at: http://www.astro.uwo.ca/~pbrown/documents/1999-Leonids-Icarus.pdf
Extensive historical information on the Leonids can also be found on Gary
Kronk's excellent website 'Comets and Meteor Showers' at http://comets.amsmeteors.org
And - most importantly, stay tuned to our MeteorObs email list! Some of you
will be receiving this newsletter by independent email. MeteorObs is an email
meteor discussion list frequented by observers all around the globe. Around
Leonid time it will provide many valuable answers to all your questions. To sign
up - even if you just want to listen in during the Leonids - fill in the online
subscribe form on the MeteorObs website at http://www.meteorobs.org/subscribe.html
Links to Leonids Web Sites
Leonid
Peak Online Estimator: If you want to find out the estimated peak times for where you live, go to this site, and check out your location. At the bottom of the screen is a flux calculator. Pick the city closest to you and launch the calculator. It should give you a pretty good idea what the times will be for your area.
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