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Re: (meteorobs) July 5/6 6/7...



In a message dated 96-07-08 08:34:41 EDT, you write:

<< ee George, I thought it was slow too, but looks like your rates were lower

 than mine.
 I got in 1.61 hours before local midnight on the 5/6th, until the more than 
 quarter moon wiped me out with a touch of thin cirrus, saw 9 (only plotted 
 8...3 occurred in 40 seconds, and my feeble brain couldn't hold all that 
 info to plot... first two were short, slow 0 and 1 magnitude Sagittarids 
 within 15 seconds of each other.Of course, I was looking South, maybe 
 that's why I saw more/hr.
 	 >>
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Wayne,

Looking South probably was the difference.  I considered this and decided to
look north to see if anything different was happening in that neck of the
woods. Sagittarids are quite common along the ecliptic and was just trying to
find something different.  I do this in response to expected slow nites and
also the expected appearance of the moon.  Since I didn't want to turn my cot
around when the moon rises, I faced it North...the least affected direction
that would still allow for me to have 5.0 or darker skies.  I'm also trying
to find out just which nite would there be an increase in sporadic
activity...if there is any nites that would show a distinct upswing of
activity?
George Z.

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