Including it will make your count artificially high for your limiting magnitude. It helps to watch different parts of the sky. Nor should you confer about the sky's limiting magnitude. Your own determination needs to go with your count. How to Report The next morning, when you tally your results, divide them into separate time periods about an hour long, giving the beginning and end to the nearest minute.
Shorter periods are preferable if the radiant was low or the action changed significantly.
For each period, total up the number of Ls and NLs that you noted within it. If you estimated magnitudes, list the numbers of Leonids and non-Leonids at each brightness level. The Leonid shower normally continues at a rather low level for about a week. Adapted from the IMO's journal, WGN, this graph is the fruit of 1,102 effective hours of meteor watching by 182 observers. During this time they recorded 2,697 Leonids.