(meteorobs) Dec 19-20 2006 obs

[George Gliba]

meteors at eclipse.net wrote:
> Froze my tail off last night for the Coma Berenicids peak, and to see if I
> could spot the upside of the Ursids.
>
> Only 27 degrees, which wasn't bad until I started packing up. I admit it,
> I'm a wimp! Had a nice covering of frost on my sleeping bag :)
>
> Results:
>
> Dec 19-20 2006
> NJAA Observatory
> High Bridge, NJ
> Plotted, actual plot time measured from tapes
> Wayne Hally
>
> Per 1 : 0825 UT to 0945 LM +5.57 Teff 1.117 F 1.00 COM 4, URS 2, XOR/ANT 1,
> SPO 6
>
> Per 2 : 0945 UT to 1055 LM +5.50 Teff 1.100 F 1.00 COM  3, URS 0, XOR/ANT
> 0, SPO 3
>
> Total 0825-1055 LM +5.54 Teff 2.217 F 1.00 COM 7, URS 2, XOR/ANT 1, SPO 9
>
> Mag distributions
> COM (0) 1.5, (+1) 2, (2)1.5, (+3) 1, (+4) 1 Avg +1.71
> SPO (+1) 4.5, (+2) 0.5, (+3) 1.5 (+4) 2, (+5) 0.5  Avg +2.27
> URS (0) 1, (+3) 0.5, (+4) 0.5
> XOR/ANT (+3) 1
>
> Totals 19 meteors in 2.217 hrs= 8.6/Hr Avg Mag +2.05
> Per hour: COM 3.2, URS, 0.9, ANT/XOR, 0.5, SPO 4.1
>
> Wayne
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Wayne,

Anybody who can observe meteors for 2. 22 hours in the early morning cold
in below freezing temperature with frost on their sleeping bag is no wimp!

Although when I think of some of the really hard core Dutch, French, Slovak,
and Canadian observers who watch the Geminids for 6 or 8 hours straight, 
some
of them even carrying their coffins with them to observe in, makes me 
feel like
a wimp! :-)

Cheers,
GWG