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

George, I too considered looking that direction, but figured I need 
plotting practice, so trying to plot SAG's sounded good. PS slight 
improvement in plot times this weekend. But boy did I freeze up when those 
3 came so fast. Next time, I'll be more mentally prepared,and at least be 
able to plot the third with a *3* level of accuracy.
By the way, about 0530 UT on the 7th, saw a near fireball...had Jupiter as 
a -2.7 mag reference, so sure it was a -2 only. Long slow path, up into the 
sky from the horizon to the east o Alpha Capricornus straight up to an 
elevation of 60 deg above horizon. Too bad between the haze, cirrus and 
moon the LM was about 4, and therefor I was't plotting :-(
Wayne
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Original Text
From GeoZay@aoldot com, on 7/8/96 10:11 AM:
To: <meteorobs@latradedot com>

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.