(meteorobs) Geminids Obs near peak (night of Dec 13-14) from Hawaii.

Michael Linnolt mlinnolt at alum.mit.edu
Thu Dec 14 16:22:46 EST 2006


We had some typical trade wind weather conditions last night for the Geminids peak here in Hawaii. Some passing clouds interfered somewhat, but overall I had a pretty good show observing from my backyard in the suburbs of Honolulu.

Limiting magnitude was a good 5.5-5.6 in moderate light pollution, due to lack of moonlight and generally transparent skies. I guess I was in about the ideal location this year, as the peak occured around midnight, just before moonrise!

Activity was quite reasonable, with a total of 33 GEM seen in an hour. Pretty well distributed in brightness too, with quite a few bright ones to make for an exciting session. A mag -4 near-fireball was the most impressive one. It appeared that the activity was higher between 0930-10UT, an hour before the predicted 1045UT peak, than 10-1030UT however.

REPORT FOLLOWS:
===============
OBS: Mike Linnolt (LINMI)
DATE: Dec 14, 2006
TIME: 0930 - 1032 UT
LOC: Honolulu, Hawaii (21° 16' N, 157° 48' W)
ELEV: 230 feet
Conditions: Partly Cloudy. Temp 70F.
METHOD: Paper


Observing Periods Summary:
==========================

# Period(UT) FOV    Teff   F    LM   GEM SPO
- ---------- ---    ----   -    ---  --- ---
1 0930-1001 04h+10  0.50  1.3   5.5   19  2
1 1001-1032 05h+10  0.50  1.2   5.6   14  4

Periods Detail:
===============

Period #1:
----------
Mag -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1  0 +1 +2 +3 +4 +5 +6
------------------------------------------
GEM: 0  0  0  0  2  1  0  1  4  4  3  4  0 = 19
SPO: 0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  1  0  0  1  0 = 2

DEAD TIME: 1 min

Period #2:
----------
Mag -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1  0 +1 +2 +3 +4 +5 +6
------------------------------------------
GEM: 0  0  1  0  0  0  1  0  4  2  2  4  0 = 14
SPO: 0  0  0  0  0  0  0  1  1  0  2  0  0 = 4

DEAD TIME: 1 min

END OF REPORT


More information about the Meteorobs mailing list