(meteorobs) Bolide, not Perseid [time correction]
Bias, Peter V
pbias at flsouthern.edu
Wed Aug 14 07:35:13 EDT 2013
We were calling them "flashbulb KGs" the last time they were firing like this.
Pete
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From: meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org [meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org] on behalf of Jodie Reynolds [spacerocks at spaceballoon.org]
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 3:03 AM
To: Meteor science and meteor observing
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Bolide, not Perseid [time correction]
Given Deneb and Sadr are both in Cyg, and k-Cyg is active, and given
a little spitballing in the astrometrics - and given that k-Cyg
apparently is known to occasionally spit-up some bright flashy
things in the sky that in no way resemble a bolide, a fireball, or
anything else other than bright flashy things - I'm going to call it
a k-Cyg unless someone corrects me. ;-)
I couldn't find any pretty maps out there for kappa Cygnids, I think
my GoogleFoo is broken tonight.
--- Jodie
Tuesday, August 13, 2013, 2:41:57 PM, you wrote:
> Sorry - too much cut-and-paste.
> Terminus was :53 not :52. And image processing brings it out a
> little further. 53.819 [Time is GPS sync]
> Mea Culpa on the seconds!
> Tuesday, August 13, 2013, 2:11:54 PM, you wrote:
>> This morning (13AUG2013) at 01:47:52.451-::52.585 PDT 38* 33'/121* 18' my all-sky
>> camera caught a nice bolide, probably Mag -3 on a radiant that
>> definitely wasn't Pers.
>> If we picked a point somewhere between Sadr and Deneb and drew a line
>> just off Fomalhaut (closer to Skat), that would have been the
>> path, traveling NW-SE, flaring out somewhere around Skat. Towards
>> the edge of my calibration, but let's call it from
>> 22h24m58s/+1*26'48" to 22h44m19s/-18*45'32" [of date]
>> Anyone know off the top of their head if that puts it on a known
>> radiant or just a particularly nice sporadic?
>> Video and animated GIF available.
>> TIA for any thoughts!
>> --- Jodie
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Best regards,
Jodie mailto:spacerocks at spaceballoon.org
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