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THE absence of moonlight during the Leonid epoch of the present year will be favourable for observations of this historic shower. For determining on which of the three dates of November 14, 15, and 16 it may occur, calculations made by the writer point to the night of November 16 as that of the maximum, when, as was the case on the corresponding night of last year, the number of meteors radiating from the Sickle may be found by observers to be considerable. The following are details as to this and also other showers that become due during the remainder of the month of November:—
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HENRY, J. November Meteors. Nature 82, 38 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/082038b0
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