(meteorobs) Perseids 2006

[Bill Godley]

Wow, 50,000!  Congratulations.  I just cracked 1,000
the other day.  I am glad to know I am not alone in
that I never tire of seeing meteors.

--- Koen Miskotte <k.miskotte at wxs.nl> wrote:

> Hello,
> In the period of 22 july untill 5 august I had a
> vacation with my family in southern France. There we
> rented a small house with a distance of 3 kilometers
> near the village of Entrecastaux (Var region in the
> Provence). The Provence is famous for his crystal
> clear night sky's. There I was able to observe the
> southern meteor streams and the Perseids.
> Some results of this campaign (lm= maximum Lm, no
> average):
> 
> Date     Teff  Lm   N stream   N Spo   N tot  
> Remarks
> 22/23-7  2,00  6,6      10        21      31    
> 23/24-7  2,98  6,6      19        35      54   -5
> ANT
> 25/26-7  2,97  6,6      34        48      82   -3
> PER
> 26/27-7  4,57  6,7      54        66     120   -3
> PER
> 27/28-7  0,93  6,7       3        13      16   
> 28/29-7  5,59  6,8      64       101     165   -6
> SDA
> 29/30-7  4,20  6,7      62        59     118   -3,
> -3 CAP, -3 PER
> 30/31-7  4,76  6,8      75        83     158   -5
> CAP, -7 PER
> 01/02-8  1,93  6,5      21        26      47  
> Strong mistral, increasing cirrus
> 02/03-8  1,72  6,6      17        22      39  
> Strong mistral, increasing cirrus
> 03/04-8  5,69  6,8      91       115     206  
> Strong mistral (8bft)
> 04/05-8  3,28  6,7      63        53     116   
> 
> In short: 
> - teff 40,68 hour
> - Total observed meteors: 1152
> - Fireballs: 9
> - All data is sent to NAMN, IMO and DMS
> - Very strong mistral on 3/4-8, resulting in a very
> dark and clear sky. Sometimes in northeastern
> direction thin patches of cirrus were passing.
> Mistral is a strong northern wind, on most occasions
> it appears when a depression is near the Alpes or
> the Gulf of Genua. 
> -30/31-7 was a special night. That night I observed
> my 50000st meteor (first observations done in april
> 1980!).
> -With my Canon EOS 10 D and a Canon EF 2.8/15 mm
> (attached to a Vixen Great Polaris Mount) I
> photographed 18 meteors. The best one's are placed
> on my website: http://home.planet.nl/~misko002/
> amongst them a nice -5 Capricornid fireball.
> 
> Some day's before I left to France I recieved WGN.
> So I used the new working list of meteor streams to
> classify meteors (SDA, PER, CAP, ANT, PSA and SPO).
> The southern delta Aquarids are a great meteor
> stream on southern locations! I observed this stream
> from  Crete  2003 (35 north latitude), Chios island
> 2001 (38,5 north latitude) and southern France 1984,
> 1985, 1986, 1993 & 2006 (43,5 north latitude). It is
> interesting to see my highest SDA counts on Crete
> were 15-20 an hour, my highest counts in France were
> 9-12 an hour. The SDA radiant rises 9 degrees higher
> on Crete!
> Also the Perseids became more and more active during
> this period. Hourly counts rises from 4 (23 july)
> tot 15 an hour (5 august). 
> All in all I had a great time observing the summer
> streams. Weather in the Provence is much more stable
> than in my home country the Netherlands.
> Best wishes,
> Koen
> 
> 
> Koen Miskotte
> e-mail: k.miskotte at wxs.nl
> web: http://home.planet.nl/~misko002/
> webmaster: www.jaapschildert.com 
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