(meteorobs) Re: obs.period.2004.07.12-15

[Robert Lunsford]

Mikhail,

I applaud your efforts to include the angular velocity of each meteor. I
wish more observers would try to include this important parameter.

Bob Lunsford

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mikhail Maslov" <feraj at mail.ru>
To: <rarlt at aip.de>; <meteors at comcast.net>; <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 8:15 AM
Subject: (meteorobs) obs.period.2004.07.12-15


> My greetings.
> After long period of cloudy weather the night sky became clear.
> However the conditions were quite modest because of still lasting
> light nights and high air humidity. Meteor activity remains low.
> During Teff=1.75 h I saw 4 meteors, mostly dim. Also I made breaks
> 18.19-18.23 and 18.41-18.50 UT because of passing clouds. All meteors
> were sporadics. Each active radiant was either far from its maximum
> days or had low altitude. Only the second meteor approximately related
> in direction to alfa-Capricornids radiant, but appeared very far from
> it.
>
> Visual Observing Form - Summary Report
> Day: 12 Month:07 Year:2004; Begin: 17h 00m; End: 19h 00m
> Location: long. 82°55'E; latit. 55°01'N; IMO code:99999
> Site: NOVOSIBIRSK; Country:RUSSIA
> Observer: MASLOV MIKHAIL; IMO code:MASMI
> Objective: Overall meteor activity observation
> Radiants(height,deg): THE(25), CAP(20), ACG(76), SDA(8), JPE(31)
> Moon: phase 0.71, height 3 deg.
> Meteor data:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> |time, UT .|...apparent path...|color|mag. |ang.|Show.|Remarks......|
> |(duration,|---------|---------|.....|.....|vel,|.....|.............|
> |sec)......|..begin..|...end...|.....|.....|deg/|.....|.............|
> |..........|.RA..|dec|.RA..|dec|.....|.....|sec |.....|.............|
> |----------|-----|---|-----|---|-----|-----|----|-----|-------------|
> |17:39(1.0)|18:14|+28|17:28|+21|white| 4.5 | 25 | SPO |.............|
> |----------|-----|---|-----|---|-----|-----|----|-----|-------------|
> |17:46(1.0)|21:14|+15|21:56|+25|white| 1.0 | 18 | SPO |.............|
> |----------|-----|---|-----|---|-----|-----|----|-----|-------------|
> |18:17(1.0)|20:34|+44|19:43|+43|white| 3.5 | 10 | SPO |.............|
> |----------|-----|---|-----|---|-----|-----|----|-----|-------------|
> |18:37(0.5)|19:10|+26|19:33|+23|white| 3.0 | 06 | SPO |.............|
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> | Period......|..Field..|Teff| F | lm |THE |CAP |ACG |SDA |JPE |SPO |
> |..(UT).......| RA..|Dec|..h |...| m..|M| N|M| N|M| N|M| N|M| N|M| N|
> |-------------|-----|---|----|---|----|-|--|-|--|-|--|-|--|-|--|-|--|
> | 17:00-19:00 |19:44|+41|1.75|1.0| 5.2|p| 0|p| 0|p| 0|p| 0|p| 0|p| 4|
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> |Shower| -5 | -4 | -3 | -2 | -1 |. 0 | +1 | +2 | +3 | +4 | +5 |
> |------|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
> | THE..|....|....|....|....|....|....|....|....|....|....|....|
> |------|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
> | CAP..|....|....|....|....|....|....|....|....|....|....|....|
> |------|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
> | ACG..|....|....|....|....|....|....|....|....|....|....|....|
> |------|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
> | SDA..|....|....|....|....|....|....|....|....|....|....|....|
> |------|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
> | JPE..|....|....|....|....|....|....|....|....|....|....|....|
> |------|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
> | SPO..|....|....|....|....|....|....| 1.0|....| 1.5| 1.0| 0.5|
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Best regards, Mikhail Maslov.