(meteorobs) Correction: Meteor Report: Aug 30/31, 2008 (DAVMA)

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Sun Aug 31 14:01:09 EDT 2008


OMG!!! We actually observed at the same time!!!!

I was out plotting from 0530 to...get this...0921 :) :)

It takes longer to process plot reports, so I may not have it done until later or tomorrow.

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: meteors at comcast.net 

> Oops....left off a sporadic in one of the mag. distributions..... 
> 
> -Mark 
> 
> 
> 
> I enjoyed another morning of clear skies but overslept a bit and began 
> observing more than 1 hour later than I had planned. Beginning at 2:15 
> a.m. local time, I logged 2 hours of observing, again, under mediocre 
> August skies. Basically, it was an uneventful morning. Activity from the 
> Alpha Aurigids produced only 2 each hour, and the sporadics were about 
> average for this time of year at this site. Even the meteor magnitudes 
> for the morning were uneventful - I only saw 2 meteors brighter than +2. 
> Below is what I recorded: 
> 
> ***************************** 
> NAMN Visual Observing Report: 
> ***************************** 
> 
> Aug 30/31, 2008 Begin: 0715 UT End: 0921 UT 
> Mark Davis (DAVMA) Francis Marion National Forest, SC, USA 
> 79o 44' 47" W, 33o 05' 06" N, h=10m, IMO Code: 25120 
> 
> Observed Showers: 
> ANT 350 -03 
> AUR 083 +42 
> 
> 
> UT TIME Field Teff F LM ANT AUR SPO 
> 0715-0816 015 -10 1.00 1.00 5.04 0 2 4 
> 0820-0921 030 -05 1.00 1.00 5.15 0 2 4 
> 
> / denotes shower not observed; 0 denotes no members observed 
> Dead Time: 5 seconds/meteor 
> 
> 
> MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTIONS: (m)n 
> 0715-0816 
> AUR: (+2)1; (+4)1 
> SPO: (+1)1; (+2)1; (+3)1 (+4)1 
> 
> 0820-0921 
> AUR: (+1)1; (+2)1 
> SPO: (+2)2; (+3)1; (+4)1 
> 
> 
> 
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