(meteorobs) Observation May 31/June 1, 2006 from Slovenia

[javor.kac at guest.arnes.si]

Hi All,

We had bad weather with lots of rain in the past few days but it
cleared up nicely yesterday so I decided to check for possible
activity from the Tau Herculids again.
I observed from the same location as last week. Again, the sky was
superb, especially considering the proximity of a big city. I started
with the Moon low in the west and faced ESE during the first period.
The meteor activity was very low in the first period with only five
meteors seen. I decided to face WNW in the second period. The Moon had
set by then and the Milky Way was becoming annoying. Meteors were more
numerous in the second period as I recorded 14 meteors. Only was could
be considered a possible Tau Herculid. It appeared in Leo Minor, was a
bit on a fast side with 6 degrees/second and the miss distance from
the predicted THE radiant (from Rainer's and Jeremie's recent paper in
WGN) was about 10 degrees.
Other notable meteors were a +1 magnitude sporadic meteor in the
zenith with a double flare, a fast magnitude -1 sporadic close to
Jupiter that left a 2-second train and an orange very slow magnitude 0
meteor in Coma Berenices.

The Tau Herculid activity during the observation period was thus
insubstantial.

Clear skies!
Javor


The Summary:
Date: May 31/ June 01, 2006
Begin: 21h 42m UT
End: 23h 53m UT
Location: l= 14o 13' 42" E, fi= 45o 59' 03" N, h= 640m
Place: Zaplana, Slovenia (23107)
Observer : Javor Kac (KACJA)

Period (UT)  Teff   F   Lm  ECL THE* Spor
21:42-22:46  1.05 1.00 6.62  0   0    5
22:48-23:53  1.05 1.02 6.51  0   1   13
* THE .. meteors possibly associated with the comet 73P, not in the
IMO list
FOV1: 270+25
FOV2: 205+45

Magnitude distributions:
THE: +1(1)
Spor: -1(1) 0(1) +1(2) +2(3) +3(5) +4(2) +5(4)

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