The December meeting will be dinner at Spring Creek Barbecue at Las Vegas Trail and Highway 80 in Fort Worth. The date is December 20th and the time is 7:30PM. Hope to see you there. We can all swap stories about all the meteors we saw.

Monthly Meeting Notes

The November meeting was held at Tarleton University's new planetarium, whose director, Dr.Michael Hibbs, is long time member of the FWAS. A very fine BBQ dinner was provided by the university to about 30 members who braved the weather and made the trek. Afterwards we all sat in the new theater/planetarium, and Michael told about it's creation and usage. The show, "Through the Eyes of Hubble" was excellent! The projection system there is the same type as we saw at North Texas. It's capabilities are extraordinary. Members who have never been to either of these should definitely find out their schedules and plan on visiting either one or both.

See the side bar for details on December's meeting!

FWAS Members Munching Down
Before the Planetarium Show

Inside this issue:

Leonids Observing Notes

Wow--We had some GREAT Leonids observing by determined members who were determined to beat the cloud cover here in Ft. Worth!  Read on……

David Jarinko/FWAS Observatory -- Did the Leonids storm at the dark site? Well a little. We got there around 1:00 am 18 Nov 01, and only one other person was there. But about 1:30 things began to happen. We probably saw about one every 2 minutes or so, and some came in rapped succession. About 1/2 were fairly bright and 1/4 were very bright and left lingering trails of ionized gas. We saw 2 explode straight above us and one was even coming straight at us from the east when it exploded. All morning the

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