(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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