David Dunham confirms the Nov. 18, 23:19:15 flash

Updated: 2001 Dec. 10

I finally looked at my tape for this time, made near
Laurel, Maryland, and have a beautiful recording of
this flash, first reported by Roger Venable in Georgia
and confirmed by Tony Cook in Virginia.  So it is the
second lunar Leonid impact flash of 2001 recorded by
three observers.  Since it occurred about an hour 
before the other one that Tony, David Palmer, and I 
recorded, the Moon was much higher and a lot of detail 
on the Moon's Earthlit dark side is visible (more is 
visible when the tape is played than the individual 
frames show).  I looked for it in the second recording 
that I made with image intensifier and diffraction 
grating, to see if there is any hint of a spectrum, but 
unfortunately it was not in the field of view, or was 
overwhelmed by the glare of the spectrum of the sunlit
crescent that extended far onto the lunar dark side.
     I also looked for 6 other events reported
by Tony Cook that occurred within an hour of this
event, but couldn't find them in my recording, so 
most were probably cosmic ray hits on his camera, 
as he suspected.
     David Dunham, 2001 Dec. 10