(meteorobs) Meteor observations 13/14 December

Sat Dec 16 08:12:07 EST 2006

DATE: Dec 13/14, 2006  BEGIN: 04:30 local time  END: 05:35 local time
OBSERVER: Vijay Likhite
LOCATION: Long 72.833 E; Lat 18.967N
CITY/STATE: Vengurla, Maharashtra,India  ELEV: 350 ft
METHOD: Visual 
TEMP (Avg): 20 degrees C

OBSERVED SHOWERS: GEM, SPO

OBSERVING PERIODS:

PERIOD          F     LM   GEM  SPO

04:30-05:35  1.05  6.37  1      21

MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION:

    -6, -5, -4, -3, -2, -1,  0, +1, +2, +3, +4, +5
    ----------------------------------------------
GEM  0   0   0   0   0   1   0   0    0     0    0    0
SPO  0   0   0   0   0   0    2   2    7   10    0    0

OBSERVING FIELD OBSTRUCTION:

No obstruction.

DEAD TIME: 3 minutes
BREAKS: none

MEAN LIMITING MAGNITUDE: 6.37

METEOR DATA:
# TIME LOCAL SHOWER MAG SPEED COLOR TRAIN                           
-------------------------------------------------------
 1  04:32          SPO     +2    3         WHITE
 2  04:33          SPO      +3    3         WHITE
 3  04:35          SPO      +3    3         WHITE
 4  04:39          SPO      +1    2         WHITE
 5  04:42          SPO      +3    3         WHITE
 6  04:45          SPO      +2    3         WHITE
 7  04:46          SPO      +2    3         WHITE
 8  04:50          GEM      -1     0        WHITE
 9  04:52          SPO      +2    3          WHITE
 10  04:53         SPO      +3    3         WHITE
 11  04:55          SPO     +2    3         WHITE
 12  05:01          SPO      +3    3         WHITE
 13  05:02          SPO      +3    3         WHITE
 14  05:05           SPO      0      2         WHITE
 15  05:08            SPO     2      3         WHITE
 16  05:10            SPO      3     3          WHTE
 17  05: 12           SPO      3     3          WHITE
 18  05:15            SPO      2     2           WHITE
 19  05:16            SPO      3     3            WHITE
 2O  05:18            SPO      3     3            WHITE
 21   05:19            SPO      0     2            WHITE
 22   05:20            SPO      2     3            WHITE
NOTES:
Clear skies. Not very cold. Away from city. Absolutely no light polluton.Was very excited expecting GREAT GEMINIDs.
But was presented with all the sporadics. I could  see only one GEMINID.
I did not try to look for the radiant of the meteors seen as this was my first serious attempt to record meteor shower.

What could be the reason? Was my timing wrong? I was dead sure of position of GEMINI. And the sporadics were literally originating from different directions.
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