Abstract
MOHD. A. R. KHAN, Begumpet, Deccan, observed the Leonid shower this year on November 14-17, and found that it was more active than it has been for several years. On the night of November 15, in spite of the fact that the radiant was close to the moon, between 21h 30m and 22h 30m U.T., out of 31 meteors observed 14 were Leonids. Several of them were bright, the magnitudes in some cases being 0 or even brighter, and most of them were followed by expanding streaks. During the next half hour the numbers fell off, only two out of eleven meteors observed being Leonids. On the following night, between 21h 5m and 22h 35m U.T., out of 48 meteors observed, 12 were Leonids, but on November 17, only two Leonids were observed out of a total of eight meteors between 23h 30m and 24h U.T. The Leonid shower has been rather feeble for some years, but this year it returned with surprising activity.
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