After the unsuccessful first night there was strong determination to find clear skies the second night. We spent most of the time between 8h and 14h local determining the weather pattern over Europe and deciding where to go. After a consultation with a metheorologist athe national weather service we decided to make a 1300 km trip to southern France where the sky would certainly be clear.
After a 6 hour drive we arrived at San Remo, Italy. For most of the way the sky was cloudy and a passport problem prevented us from going to France. After a short observation of the local cloud pattern and a phone call to Marc Gyssens of IMO, we decided to head inland as the clouds were most likely orographic in nature.
At 2h LT we arrived at Triora, some 30 km inland and 700 m high. The sky was predominately clear and it was readily evident there was significant activity from the Leonids.

We could observe from 1:32 to 2:46 UT with the top 5-minute rate 27 LEO, seen by ATAJU during 02:12-02:17UT. Afterwards the cloud cover became too large to make useful observations. We nonetheless saw rates over 1/min in an 80% overcast sky! At around 3:40 UT the sky cleared somewhat. With 60% cloud cover we resumed our observations and observed until 5:13 UT when the cloud cover had decreased to 10%. Unofficial observations lasted until about 5:30 UT when the activity quite obviously began climbing towards the 7:51 UT peak.

MBK Team visual results

MBK Team photographic results