(meteorobs) Observation August 10/11, 2004 from Slovenia (late report)
Javor Kac
javor.kac at orion-drustvo.si
Sat Aug 21 07:39:53 EDT 2004
Hi All,
I am just back from our astronomical research camp and with this
mail I begin a series of observing reports from the camp. Only one
night was completely unusable for observing and I observed on
eight other nights.
The first night I observed from 10 PM to 4:30 AM local time with
one long break during that time. I faced SSE during much of the
observations but decided to turn NW for the last hour as the Moon
was becoming more of a nuisance. Meteor activity was quite
satisfying with 140 meteors seen in just above 5 hours Teff. The
majority of the shower meteors came from the Perseids. Aquarids
were also active, but only one meteor came from each Capricornids
and Kappa Cygnids.
The brightest meteors were:
- a -3 mag Perseid with a 4-second train at 23:28:27 UT that
appeared just 30 seconds after another bright -2 mag Perseid,
- a -4 mag Perseid with 2-second train at 00:09:37 UT and
- the brightest meteor of the night that was not seen in my Teff: -5
mag green sporadic meteor leaving a red wake and fragmenting at
00:28:14 UT.
For the numbers, see the sumary report below.
Clear skies!
Javor
Date: 10/11 August 2004
Begin: 20:10 UT
End: 02:30 UT
Location: Trije Kralji (23114)
Coordinates: 46°26'17"N 15°27'30"E 1190 m
Observer: Javor Kac (KACJA)
Period (UT) Teff F LM PER AQU CAP KCG Spor
20:10-21:11 1.02 1.00 6.23 12 0 0 0 9
21:11-22:12 1.02 1.00 6.40 11 2 0 1 13
22:14-23:16 1.03 1.00 6.13 14 1 0 0 6
23:19-00:22 1.05 1.00 6.03 26 3 1 0 11
01:24-02:30 1.10 1.11 6.19 23 1 0 0 6
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20:10-02:30 5.22 1.02 6.19 86 7 1 1 45
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Magnitude distributions
PER: -4(1) -3(1) -2(2) -1(4) 0(11) +1(18) +2(15) +3(18) +4(11) +5(5)
AQU: +3(3) +4(3) +5(1)
CAP: +3(1)
KCG: +1(1)
Spor: 0(1) +1(1) +2(6) +3(16) +4(18) +5(3)
Slovenska Bistrica, Slovenia -- 46ø23'24N - 15ø33'47E - 288m
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