Sorry, I guess I didn’t find it because I searched “Titles Only”–>“All Open Forums”–>“Leonids” That thread title just says “Meteor shower.”
I didn’t see them. 
Which is really bad, considering I’m an astronomer!
But, the BBC did go to our observatory, and film a piece on them there 
Angua
The show was fairly decent here on the gulf coast. Nothing stand out that I saw, but a decent amount of them. Did spot one sattelite (I guess it was) heading, oh, ENE, somewhere between 0500-0550.
BTW, Angua or someone else knowledgable on the subject: There was an incredibly bright point of light, around 0530, gulf coast of Florida, just a bit south of east in the sky. Very close to the horizon. Venus? Jupiter? What’d I see?
[sub]Elvis’ ride home? Ziggy Stardust on his way back for another tour?[/sub]
I saw it too. Seemed to be almost due east to me but I could be slightly off in my directions. Also extremely curious as to what it was.
Likely an Iridium flare. Caused by sunlight reflecting off Iridium mobile communications satellites. Range up to (I think) magnitude -6 or -7, noticeably brighter than Venus.
-Oli
But how did they go so slow?
I thought they were supposed to shoot right by.
The ones I saw took minutes to go by.
You sure you weren’t looking at airplanes vanilla? Not trying to insult you, serious question. Because my meteors flashed across the sky in fractions of seconds.
starman, thanks mate. I’ll take your word for it, though I’d swear it was a planet or a star, only because I spotted it in very close to the same place the next morning. Wouldn’t a comsat move, or are they all geosynch… err, well, stationary?
vanilla: That sounds like a satellite. The bit of the shower I saw was much like Cisco’s. Blink (slowly, anyway) and you’d miss one.
No, I am serious.
They were light bits, no plane parts, white light.
They moved straight, but with some jerkiness, so i knew it wasn’t planes.
I know what I saw!
And I saw about 12 of them in the space of 15 minutes.