(meteorobs) Draconids 8th October 2012 from Spain (UCM group)
Francisco Ocaña
albireo3000 at yahoo.es
Tue Oct 9 05:30:23 EDT 2012
Activity
detected in radio (143 MHz - Gràves) from 16h UT to 18h UT from Cercedilla
(Madrid) by Rafael Campillos (AAM-UCM). Rafael detected a peak of 46 meteors/hour
(from 16h to 17h UT) and 42 meteors/hour (from 17h to 18h UT) being the background level before and after
the outburst at 20 meteors/hour.
No visual
Draconid activity observed from 22h UT to 23h30m UT by Alejandro Sánchez and
Francisco Ocaña from an observing place close to Teide Obs (Tenerife, Spain).
After receiving the alert, we had a formal observing period from 22h25 UT to
22h55 UT under good observing conditions ( sky brightness 21,2 mag/arsec^2 ).
Only 5 sporadics seen in this period. Alejandro
also operated an all-sky DSLR camera during the whole period with no Draconids detected.
Video
recording stations started observation at 18h30m UT at mainland Spain. No
enhanced video activity detected at SPMN nodes operated by the UCM group.
Francisco Ocaña
UCM - Universidad Complutense de Madrid http://guaix.fis.ucm.es/fireball
AAM - Agrupación Astronómica de Madrid http://www.aam.org.es/
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