(meteorobs) NAMN Meteor Report: May 4/5, 2008

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After being clouded out Sunday morning, I was optimistic when I awoke to
clear skies early on Monday morning (May 5). It was another low-60
degree night, but tonight, I was joined by a few mosquitoes. Luckily, by
3 am the local bat population had located them and began thinning them
out for me.

At about 3:45 am I spotted a small single cloud crossing the sky and
became worried as my experience has shown they rarely travel alone. Sure
enough, by 4:30 local time, I was 80% clouded out. What made this even
worse was the clouds prevented observing during the best time for Eta
Aquarids [until the clouds arrived, I had only recorded a total 3 Eta 
Aquarids]!

I will try again tonight but weather prospects are not good.

-- 
Mark Davis, South Carolina, USA
meteors at comcast.net
namn at namnmeteors.org

North American Meteor Network
http://www.namnmeteors.org



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NAMN Visual Observing Report:
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May 4/5, 2008  Begin: 0620 UT  End: 0830 UT
Mark Davis (DAVMA)  Sullivan's Island, SC, USA
79.51' 20" W,  32.45' 30" N, h = 2m,  IMO Code: 25259

Observed Showers:
ANT: 236 -20
ELY: 283 +44
ETA: 337 -01


UT TIME     Field   Teff   F     LM   ANT  ELY  ETA  SPO
0620-0720  265 +05  1.00  1.00  5.06   0    0    /    3
0720-0830  295 +05  1.15  1.00  5.06   0    1    3    5

Dead Time: 5 seconds/meteor


MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTIONS: (m)n
ELY: (+2)1
ETA: (+1)1; (+3)1; (+4)1

SPO: (+1)1; (+2)3; (+3)3; (+4)1


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