(meteorobs) Re: [aas-members] Geminids Central Texas Dec 13/14 summary

[M. Brewster]

Your data is interesting.  You were seeing more Geminids that I thought we 
were, but we weren't taking our meteor observing seriously enough.  It would 
be interesting to use your data to plot the inherent shower strength as a 
function of time.

Michael Brewster
mibrew at tstar.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Cannon" <ecannon at mail.utexas.edu>
To: <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>; <aas-members at austinastro.org>
Cc: <mmccants at io.com>; <sue.worden at worldnet.att.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 1:44 PM
Subject: [aas-members] Geminids Central Texas Dec 13/14 summary


> Last night I drove somewhat farther from the city than the
> previous night, to about 30.32N, 98.26W, 295m.  The sky was
> very clear.  About 2% obscuration by trees at the periphery.
>
> December 13/14 (Tuesday, December 14 UTC)
> Begin 05:30:00 End 08:51:00 UTC (time-keeping by WWV)
> Teff= 150 minutes
> LM = 5.8 (faintest star)
> Geminids 172, Other 26
> Best five-minute bin had 11 GEMs.  Three times I saw two
> GEMs at once -- neat!
>
> I'll send the five-minute bins for both nights later.
>
> It was nice to see Comet C/2004 Q2 (Machholz) from darker
> skies than usual.  It looks bigger.  I don't think I could
> quite make it out without my binoculars -- maybe with
> averted vision.
>
> Ed Cannon - ecannon at mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA
>
>