(meteorobs) Poor Conditions but Still a Good Show

Bill Godley wwgj180 at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 3 10:46:33 EST 2009


>From 08:55 to 10:40 UT I counted 25 Quadrantids through fast moving low clouds/fog that thinned at times and kept a steady diet of small "sucker holes" headed my way the entire time.  I had maybe on average 40% or so of my FOV (which was out of necessity constantly moving) clear during the count.  LM was 5.2 when things would momentarily clear entirely.  I will defer adding my data to the IMO database unless someone tells me they want it with such a poor cloud correction factor.  Post to NAMN later and Mark can decide what to do with the data.

What I can say is that I still enjoyed the show and saw several neg-magnitude meteors including a -4 fireball that burned it's announcement through the clouds just fine.  There were at least two occasions where I recorded 2 or 3 meteors during the same minute.  I am guessing at least a half-dozen were 0 or brighter.  Maybe extrapolating dimmer meteors from the 0 and brighters one could deduce what kind of show I could have seen had mother nature been more accommodating.


Bill,
Coweta, Oklahoma


      



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