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CLOUDS and full moonlight seem to have impeded observations of the Leonids to a considerable extent in November, 1902. The night of November 14 was fine here, but as there seemed little probability of a display on that date—as is fully confirmed by the negative results of other observers—no extended watch was maintained. The night of November 15 turned out very unfavourable. It seemed unusually bright here about oh. 30m. on the morning of November 16. No observations were possible in the circumstances. Even if the sky had been clear, very probably nothing unusual in the way of a meteor display would have been visible, owing to the presence of the full moon, then shining with almost maximum brilliancy. M.D. Eginitis, with three assistants, observing at Athens during the night of November 15, did not see more meteors—in fact, they counted one less—than on that of November 14, 1901, on which night the American maximum took place. Both those nights were clear, but possibly the observations may not have been equally extensive. The maximum of 1902 probably took place in America, but in the absence of reports of clear observations at a few stations on the other side of the Atlantic, it is difficult to gauge with certainty the character of the display.
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HENRY, J. Leonids of 1902, and Quadrantids of 1903. Nature 67, 298 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/067298a0
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