(meteorobs) Draconid observations from Holland
Koen Miskotte
k.miskotte at wxs.nl
Sat Oct 9 11:44:19 EDT 2004
Hello all,
Last night (08-10-2004) I was able to observe the Giacobinids from the
Groevenbeekse Heide (a moor) near Ermelo, the Netherlands. Due to some very
thin patches of cirrus between 19:05 and 19:40 UT and after 20:00 UT some
banks of fog reduce limithing magnitude to a variable of 6,3 and 6,4.
At the beginning of my watch I was again visited by a owl. It was spinning
around in western direction, but when I look at the lcd display of my dcf
clock, it saw me and flew to me. It watched me for a few seconds hanging two
or three meters above me. What a strange person lies there, he must think...
During this 2.00 hour period I watched 17 meteors of which one was a
Giacobinid (mag +3) and a very nice orange +1 Taurid (20:58 UT).
Below you find my data.
Best wishes,
Koen Miskotte
E-mail: k.miskotte at wxs.nl
Homepage: http://home.planet.nl/~misko002/
Date : Year : 2004 Mo : 10 Date 08/09
Observer : Koen Miskotte
IMO-Code : MISKO
Adres : De La Reystraat 92, 3851 BK Ermelo, The Netherlands
Phone : 00(31)(0)341-558729
E-mail : k.miskotte at wxs.nl
Observing place : Ermelo Country : The Netherlands
Coordinates : EL : 5,4 NB : 52,2
Center of vision : RA : 18h20m Dec : 55 At : 19:05 UT
Start UT : 19:05
End UT : 21:05
Teff [h] : 2,00
Shower alpha delta
GIA 262 54
TAU 30 12
Period UT Tm T.eff Lm Stream Spo Ntot Cloud M
Start End [h] [h] GIA TAU
19:05 20:05 19,58 1,00 6,4 0 0 6 6 C
20:05 21:05 20,58 1,00 6,4 1 1 9 11 C
Stream -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 total mean
GIA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3,00
TAU 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1,00
Sporadic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 6 3 0 15 3,67
Remarks:
Between 19:05 and 19:43 some patches of very thin cirrus, after 20:00 UT
some banks of fog and haze.
Koen Miskotte
E-mail: k.miskotte at wxs.nl
Homepage: http://home.planet.nl/~misko002/
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