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Many astrologers did not sleep during the whole night because they wanted to see an intense Leonid meteor shower over Asia. But many viewers failed to see the show partly because of cloud cover.

But still 30 amateur astronomers succeeded to see it at the Siriska wildlife sanctuary that is situated about 95 miles south of New Delhi. During a four-hour period, they enumerated 78 Leonids.

One could see a lot of viewers that wanted to see a flashing of the Leonids. Due to flashes of light in the sky, the scientist of NASA defined 300 raining down that would happen every hour.

According to Bill Cooke, scientist of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office, burning up of the meteor in the atmosphere is considered to be reason of the flash of light.

About 300 students stayed at school in order to observe the show. The students were able to see shooting stars.

Because of a cloudy sky it was impossible to look after the Leonid meteor shower in Agra, home of the Taj Mahal, a 36-year-old photographer could only see two shooting stars. “It was a momentary thing. It was so disappointing,” he said.

Cloud and fog covered the sky of Nepal so that it was impossible to see anything.

In order to see the meteor shower a group of people went to a mountain resort at Nagarkot and brought tents for the event.

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