(meteorobs) Lyrids from Belgium

Michel Vandeputte michelvandeputte at hotmail.com
Sat Apr 23 05:06:04 EDT 2005


Observing report 

Day : 21-22  Month : April   Year : 2002
begin : 23.52 UT    End : 03.15 UT
Location : Ellezelles    Country : Belgium   long. 3.38  E    lat 50.43 N - alt 120 m
Observer : Michel Vandeputte    IMO code : VANMC
Method :  Visual observations - tape recorder. 


Observed Showers : 

Lyrids (alpha 271°/ delta+34)

Interval analyse 

Periods             Teff        F        Lm    LYR   SPOR

23.52-00.52    1.00    1.00    5.80        7        3
00.52-01.52    1.00    1.00    6.00        7        1
01.52-02.52    1.00    1.00    6.03        8        5
02.52-03.15    0.38    1.00    5.80        3        3

23.52-03.15    3.38                                25        12    = 37 meteors             
        

Magnitude distributions

LYR    -1(1)+0(0)+1(2)+2(4)+3(11)+4(4)+5(0) mean 2.80 N~ : 1
SPOR -1(0)+0(0)+1(0)+2(3)+3(3)+4(6)+5(0) mean 3.25 N ~ : 1

Remarks

-interfering moonlight ; but the dry and transparent air resulted in high Lm's. 
-no outburst was observed around 1.34 UT. 
-many weak Lyrids with short trails in the suroundings of the radiant. 


Kind regards,

Michel Vandeputte.
VVS belgium - meteor section /  Dutch Meteor Society. 


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