(meteorobs) IMO Shower Circ.: Lyrids 2006
Rainer Arlt
rarlt at aip.de
Tue Apr 25 02:31:36 EDT 2006
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I M O S h o w e r C i r c u l a r
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LYRIDS 2006, visual observations
The Lyrid meteor shower exhibited normal activity in 2006.
The profile below is compatible with a peak time of solar
longitude 32.32 degrees as it is listed in IMO's Shower
Calendar. At present, the temporal resolution of the graph
is not fine enough to fix the time of maximum to a tenth of
a degree (2.4h). The maximum ZHR of 17 is also close to the
one found in the long-term analysis by Dubietis & Arlt
(WGN 29 (2001), p. 119, www.imo.net/imo/wgn).
A possible enhancement due to the 1-revolution dust trail of
Comet Thatcher was not observed. Lyytinen gave a time of closest
encounter of 2006 April 22, 9h25m UT (meteorobs mailing list
(groups.yahoo.com/group/meteorobs/message/30434). At that time,
only a single observer was out, and a weak enhancement may be
buried in the small number of Lyrids available.
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Apr 2006 Sollong nIND nLYR ZHR +- lm
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21 09h45m 31.0688 8 23 5.1 1.0 6.26
21 22h40m 31.5907 10 36 8.3 1.4 6.24
21 23h50m 31.6428 8 37 12.4 2.0 5.83
22 03h45m 31.8006 10 33 11.3 1.9 5.69
22 15h40m 32.2845 7 39 17.2 2.7 5.89
22 21h30m 32.5238 12 41 14.5 2.2 6.02
23 00h00m 32.6226 9 40 11.3 1.8 5.87
23 02h35m 32.7286 9 41 12.0 1.9 5.95
23 21h40m 33.5047 24 43 4.6 0.7 5.92
24 00h35m 33.6227 3 4 3.7 1.6 5.95
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The profile was computed with a constant population index
of r=2.2, no additional perception corrections and a
radiant height correction of sin(hR). Solar longitudes
refer to equinox J2000.0. nIND is the number of observing
periods, nLYR is the number of Lyrids in each average.
lm is the average limiting magnitude of the observing
periods involved.
We are very grateful to the following observers who
contributed to this first analysis:
Pierre Bader (Germany),
Ricardas Balciunas (Lithuania),
Ivana Belic (Serbia),
Tibor Csorgei (Slovakia),
Milan Darijevic (Serbia),
Dariusz Dorosz (Poland),
Audrius Dubietis (Lithuania),
William Godley (USA),
Visnja Jankov (Serbia),
Ivan Jokic (Yugoslavia),
Natalija Jovanovic (Serbia),
Mirna Kramar (Croatia),
Paul Martsching (USA),
Mikhail Maslov (Russia),
Koen Miskotte (Netherlands),
Markku Nissinen (Finland),
Jurgen Rendtel (Germany),
Branislav Savic (Serbia),
Teodora Savic Popovic (Serbia),
Nikola Stankov (Serbia),
Wesley Stone (USA),
Tomislava Turcin (Croatia),
Shigeo Uchiyama (Japan),
Iva Valenic (Croatia),
Michel Vandeputte (Belgium),
Jovan Vasiljevic (Serbia),
Thomas Weiland (Austria),
Kim S. Youmans (USA),
Ilkka Yrjola (Finland),
Przemyslaw Zoladek (Poland).
Rainer Arlt
2006 Apr 25, 6h30 UT
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