(meteorobs) Large Fireball KCG from Italy!

[Roberto]

To Rome it is serene from many weeks excluded this night (cloudy half) and
some days ago with some cloud. This night however a possible Perseid of
mag -6.
Roberto Haver


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pierre Martin" <dob14.5 at sympatico.ca>
To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Large Fireball KCG from Italy!


> As of this morning (Aug 8/9), I took note of KCG activity.  Although
> no fireballs were seen, the best one was a 30 degree long mag -2 KCG
> that had a very smooth brightness increase and decrease.
>
> Of course, Perseids are ramping up nicely.  The weekend is looking
> like it'll be clouded out here (in eastern Ontario), but I'm hopeful
> for Monday night.
>
> - Pierre
>
> P.S. My long overdue reports on the way soon... :0)
>
>
>
>
> On 9-Aug-08, at 5:18 AM, Roberto wrote:
>
> > The evening of 7 August to 21h31m41s the my station of Rome
> > (Mintron video camera and 8mm objective F/0.8 ) has recorded a most
> > luminous KGC with 4 flares of which one of approximately
> > -12/-13!!! The duration has been of 2.16sec. Also an other station
> > video of a my friend to approximately 65Km has recorded the same
> > one fireball but only for approximately 2/3 of the length.
> > Within little time I hope of having the orbital elements.
> > Here you can see the image:
> > http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/6831/m20080807213141romeitalbf3.jpg
> > Roberto Haver
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