(meteorobs) Ursids last night from Eastern Ontario

Pierre Martin pmartin at teksavvy.com
Tue Dec 22 08:29:53 EST 2009


Hi all,

It appears that there was a small burst(?) of Ursids roughly around  
1am EDT (6h00UT).  This included a mag -5 exploding Ursid fireball  
that left a 15 sec persistent train!  Perhaps it was just coincidence,  
but quick glances up upon arrival at the observing site seemed to show  
that something was up with the Ursids.

Unfortunately, varying clouds forced sign-on not until about an hour  
and a half later (not to mention all my fumbling in setting up mount  
and cameras in -19C (-2F).  By then it seemed the activity returned to  
more normal levels with predominantly fainter meteors.  But still  
rather decent rates of around 10-15/hr visual Ursids under mag 6.3  
(approx) skies, so perhaps there was a broad enhancement.  An  
enjoyable session.  Good numbers of COM too.

Will need to decode the tape and gather up the data ;)

Pierre Martin
Ottawa, Ontario



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