(meteorobs) IMO METEOR REPORT: 08/09 Aug 2004, Lew Gramer (GRALE)

[Lewis J. Gramer]

My impression was exactly what you suggest, Ed - the Perseids
before the peak night of 11/12 August were surprisingly faint!

Especially if compared with their (more normal) blazing beauty
on the peak night... Of course, I couldn't be ENTIRELY sure of
this impression - since as you'll see, the Limiting Magnitude
and other conditions for me that last night were also notably
worse than they had been down on Long Key. (sigh ;>)

(BTW, that last report will have to wait until Monday now...
It's late! And if I hope to take advantage of any clear skies
THIS weekend, I need to get some sleep tonight...)

Clear skies all!
Lew



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> > MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTIONS
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> >         -1      0       1       2       3       4       5
> >   6    TOTAL
> > PER     0       0       0       0.5     1.5     2       0
> >   0       4
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> Hi Lew:
>     I note from your report above, the absents of bright
> minus magnitude
> meteors.  Was this the same for others on the two nights of
> maximum. As you
> know I operate a Sandia All-sky camera from my location and it has a
> detection capability of around -3 mag and brighter.  It did not record
> anything and the two spectrographs I had set up had negative
> results also. I've never seen a year like it with the absents of bright
> meteors at my location...