This year I had the opportunity
to join the AKM
Meteor group from Germany and others to view the Leonid in B O
A O, South Korea. Planning
took a LONG LONG time since my last Leonid 99 in Jordan . There were three potential
sites to go this year : Australia, China and Korea. US was left out as the prediction
models suggested a grandeur encounter will take place closer to
Singapore i. e East Asia/Australia . Australia could be a good choice but the thought of
chasing for good sky on 4-wheeler is a little too much for me. Finally the choice became easier as Daniel
invited
me to join him in Korea. Plan B will be joining D M S group in
China. Since then I had amassed nearly sixty kilos of
instrumentation. For this year Leonid expedition I had only one objective
-to view and
record Leonid in the predicted 2 hours+ windows and that
it is all about it.
I know weather could ruin all these and ended up having anxious days looking hopelessly
at satellite maps depiction of clouds drifting across Korea. For this
short trip I did not plan to get Lonely Planet guide - no touring of any kind was planned this time. I kept my
finger crossed and prayed for good weather. [.... good weather indeed!]