(meteorobs) Too Late for PAUs?

[Bill Godley]

Wayne (and Bob),

Thanks for the reminder re/ path length.  Though the brightness and wake might have made it seem longer than it was, I think your suggestion is probably the best classification.  Now, I must do some reports and get some sleep before heading back out.

Bill,
Coweta, OK

----- Original Message ----
From: "meteoreye at comcast.net" <meteoreye at comcast.net>
To: Global Meteor Observing Forum <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 7:18:57 AM
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Too Late for PAUs?


If it was a long distance meteor from near Formahaut, it was not a PAU, sounds like too long for a meteor that close to the radiant.
The radiant is about 8 degrees east of Formalhaut now.
A meteor must be shorter than the distance from the radiant to the start of the meteor to be included as a shower member.
This was the last day of shower activity listed by the IMO/AMS, supported by recent observations
Gary's list is of a more historical nature, a fine resource for research.

Wayne

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: Bill Godley <wwgj180 at yahoo.com> 

> At the very end of my session this morning I had a very bright (-1) meteor low 
> across my FOV to the south that I believe was a PAU, a first for me to record. 
> I note it is not on Bob's list for this week (understandably so) but the AMS 
> shower list shows activity through 10Aug and Gary Kronk's site indicates the 
> 13th. It cut a fairly long path generally from east of Fomalhaut toward the 
> Pleiades. 
> 
> Had some nice Perseids, including a back-to-back-to-back three minutes with a 
> CAP, PER and SPO one after another. 
> 
> Need to do some reports later today. 
> 
> Clear skies to all, 
> 
> Bill, 
> Coweta, OK 
> 
> 
> 
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