(meteorobs) Observation November 8/9, 2005 from Slovenia - bright Taurid fireballs

Javor Kac javor.kac at orion-drustvo.si
Thu Nov 10 17:13:52 EST 2005


Tuesday night I observed with Jure A from a location about 80 km 
from Ljubljana. We chose it because the wind there was quite 
strong, insuring us clear skies (most of Slovenia is foggy these 
days).
I started observing just before 1 am local time and observed for just 
over two hours Teff. I logged 43 meteors. The Northern and 
Southern branch of the Taurids were about equally strong, 
producing 6 and 7 meteors, respectively.
I saw two bright Taurids: a magnitude -7 in Eridanus at 01:11:17 UT 
and a magnitude -8 at 02:14:12 UT near the zenith.

We also operated four cameras but apparently did not catch any of 
the bright meteors. The brightest meteor of the night was nearly 
recorded by one of the digital cameras (but the camera was taking 
dark frame at the time ):

Clear skies!
Javor

The Summary:
Date: November 08/09, 2005
Begin: 23h 54m UT
End: 02h 21m UT
Location: 13o 59' 58" E, 45o 44' 22" N, 550 m
Place: Dolenja vas, Slovenia
Observer: Javor Kac (KACJA)

Period (UT) Teff   F   LM  NTA STA TAU Spor
23:54-01:04 1.12 1.00 6.43  4   5   0   13
01:04-02:21 1.12 1.00 6.33  2   2   3   14
FOV1: 110+40
FOV2: 125+40

Magnitude distributions:
NTA: +1(1) +2(2) +3(1) +4(1) +5(1)
STA: 0(2) +1(1) +2(1) +3(3)
TAU: -8(1) -7(1) +2(1)
Spor: 0(1) +1(1) +2(4) +3(7) +4(10) +5(4)

Slovenska Bistrica, Slovenia -- 46ø23'24N - 15ø33'47E - 288m
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