(meteorobs) videoobservations 20100101-20100107

[Mikhail Maslov]

This week was highlighted by QUA peak, badly moonlit though. So far
videorecording were done mostly in the first half of the night, when
the Moon was not very high. On my latitude QUA radiant's altitute is
15-20 degrees in evening hours, so the shower gave a number of good
lenghty meteors striking from north to south. On the night 03/04 the
the record was done also during the last hour before the morning
twilight (00:31-01:43 UT 04 January), and this hour gave 10 QUA
meteors (and 2 Sporadics). Considering very bad observing conditions
(moonlight from one side, twilight from another side), such activity
is comparable with maximum Geminid rates, recorded by my camera (15-25
meteors per hour in the night 13/14 December). It is not reliable to
make conclusions on a such narrow observing data, but perhaps my
camera caught QUA maximum.
There no one COM meteor recorded, but it is no surprise, as its
radiant rises in the second half of the night, when recordings were
very few.




Date       Teff,h                    Meteors
2010.01.02  3.71   7 (ANT 1, QUA 3, SPO 3)
2010.01.03  3.76   20 (QUA 16, SPO 4)
2010.01.04  6.96   6 (QUA 2, SPO 4)
2010.01.05  7.31   6 (QUA 1, SPO 5)
2010.01.06  8.24   12 (QUA 3, SPO 9)
2010.01.07  1.79   0

Total      31.77   51 (ANT 1, QUA 25, SPO 25)

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Link (video and track images)
http://narod.ru/disk/16963887000/vm20100101-20100107.rar.html (20.6 Mb),
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Remarkable events:
- 2 January 12:21 UT. Long ANT meteor (D=1.04 sec, m=2.0);
- 2 January 12:46 UT. Long and bright SPO meteor (D=2.16 sec in the
FOV, m=-2.0);
- 2 January 14:11 UT. Long QUA meteor (D=1.48 sec, m=0.0, wake);
- 5 January 12:19 UT. Long and bright SPO meteor (D=1.16 sec, m=-1.0, wake);
- 6 January 16:15 UT. Long SPO meteor (D=1.52 sec, m=3.0);


Detailed reports can be found here:
http://feraj.narod.ru/Radiants/Observations/v200712.html



Best regards, Mikhail Maslov