Show Shower of Leonids Los ls Angeles Angele Cal Cal Nov No fol tol following following lowing description of the shower or of as seen from Mount Lowe Lw is II furnished by b Edgar L L Larkin director of at the lie Mount Lowe observatory ob The he first lut meteor In teor was waR seen at 91 and during the five dye fo minutes to midnight four foUt were seen spon and 53 trans from midnight to 4 a n m rn Friday Y morning moring They The all al nh seemed to emerge from Crom within the lie of the zodiacal constellation Leo Iro IC None one were vere wen isen en to come c me out of oC It I but their bright tracks pro prolonged prolonged prolonged longed backward would converge there Many Mussy Mal were of ot great brilliancy many times brighter than Venus They The Thc w ver verall re all ni white but thirteen which were white tinged with wih red r and two were ere quite quie red About halt half hal left lef long lumin luminous ous streaks which remained from half bail halfa baila l a 1 minute to tu the length of at t ven minutes No o 22 was was perhaps the brightest that passed the zenith It I was WB remarkable In brilliancy ant and width of oC troll trail Its Il solid sold portions were er dissipated with wih cosmic dust by friction against the air and therefore did not explode The meteor into the tho trail midway between Orion antI anil Taurus Faurus The disruption of ot the thc glowing lo steam was M at lt the star atar P I The detached moss mM moved moed to Aldebaran AM eight degrees degree where It be became become became came come faint and anI disappeared In the linac laney of that fIrst magnitude sun Run The he original portion remained visible to the unaided eye cc e e for Cor minutes minute glass glan and still UI longer in an |