Hi G



 GG> I've been requested to ask those in the know (which you may be) if the

 GG> Leonid (in Dec), Persides (in Aug) are visible from Oz.  If I mucked up

 GG> the spelling, I apologise in advance.  If not, I'll try again sometime.



I'm no meteor buff, but here's a guess or two: Leo is pretty close

to the ecliptic, so we'd see meteors from there reasonably well.

Perseus, however, is about 45 degrees north, so it doesn't rise

very far. Meteors from there would hit here at a much shallower

angle than they'd hit you, so we'd see fewer of them. I'd say

some would still be visible, though.



Both constellations reach their highest point at about 5am in the

months you mention (we get more meteors in the morning, that's the

front end of the earth as it goes round the sun.) This may explain

why I'm not a meteor buff...



Cheers



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