A Big Leonid


This super-dense, wind-sheared event lasts for 3 minutes and provides a lot of interesting detail. Spectacular!

Several smaller events are superimposed. The expanded graphs explore small sections of the main event.

Distance between major grid lines is 135 seconds:

 

Magnified view of the initial spike at 6466528 ms above. Curiously, most major events are preceded by such a feature. 

Distance between two major grid lines is 1.2 seconds:

 

Following is a magnified view of the last event in the first image with a further magnified inset of the initial spike.

Top/Inset Graph: Distance between major grid lines is 1.5 seconds. (This spike is aligned with its representation in the large-scale graph):

Large-scale Graph: Distance between major grid lines is 28 seconds: