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Hi folks... over there in Clinton-land!
Here are my latest personal meteor summaries from Kiwi-land... courtesy
of the howling, powling, IMO WOLFMAN..... (land of the Southern Cross).
82-88 Hanson Street, Newtown, Wellington, NZ
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07 JUL 12:00-18:30 04 SAG 23 SPOR +4.5 NIL CLOUD
09 JUL 08:00-10:00 00 SAG 05 SPOR 4.5 NIL
13 JUL 08:00-13:00 00 SAG 15 SPOR 4.4 NIL
17 JUL 10:00-12:00 00 PAU 02 SDA 04 SPOR 4.4 NIL
18 JUL 10:00-12:00 01 PAU 03 SDA 06 SPOR 4.2 NIL
19 JUL 10:00-12:00 01 PAU 04 SDA 06 SPOR 4.4 NIL
20 JUL 10:00-12:00 02 PAU 05 SDA 05 SPOR 4.7 NIL
24 JUL 10:00-14:00 02 PAU 09 SDA 06 SPOR 4.7 NIL
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08 DATES 25.5 HRS 33 SH 073 SPOR
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SAG=SAGITTARIDS PAU= PAISCIS AUSTRINIDS SDA=S. DELTA AQUARIDS
SPOR=SPORADICS
PERSONAL OBSERVING STATISTICS FOR 1996
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MONTH DATES OBSERVED HRS OBSERVED SHOWER SPORADICS TOTAL
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January 007 032.5 0061 0117 0178
February 011 068.5 0173 0253 0426
March 016 107.0 0219 0422 0641
April 009 052.0 0036 0224 0260
May 011 048.75 0079 0212 0291
June 016 080.75 0034 0271 0305
July 008 025.5 0033 0073 0106
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Totals 078 414.5 0635 1572 2207
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Bob Lunsford of ALPOMS, and George Zay of NAMN, receive personal
hard-copies of this (hopefully, if I ever remember!) each month.
I hope to soon post a list of magnitude summaries covering the last year
or so, in a few days, when I have time. Had three prelininary emergency
root canal operations this week, and have spent most of this month in
bed in agony... mostly. Somehow, the astronomy still gets painfully
done. The stroke of the last 3 months is well behind me, and I am 80
percent recovered. Last month was the worst, weatherwise, in living
memory, so I was able to rest up, large, and medically rehabilitate.
Comments about David Levy noted... confirms what I have recently heard
from other IMO workers in Europe.... some people have big egos out
there... we have a few of those types here in NZ. Usually I manage to
kick a few of their butts, now and again, some slip through. If I went
after ALL of them, to protect my colleagues, I'd get NO astronomy done!
Paul Roggemans has been getting a massive blast from quite a few
quarters, through the pages of WGN, the IMO Journal. If you only knew
the hassles and problems that Paul has gone through in the last 20
years to get IMO off the ground, you'd dismiss a lot of this emotive
back-biting. Paul has had to cop a lot of unwarranted flack and abuse
from some people whose memeories are rather short, and who think they
know better. REAL meteor workers don't have time for back-biting or
destructive astro-politics... they have far too much data to collect and
reduce, and write up... that's where the REAL astronomy gets done.
OK, enough from me... keep up the good work over there, you lot. Mark,
Bob and George and doing a massive job... thanks guys, and let's see a
few more females get into meteor work. 56 percent of the world's brains
belong to women... it's about time that 56 percent of meteor astronomers
were ALSO women!
Bye and best wishes...I'll keep an eye out on the net, for you all!
GRAHAM WOLF
New Zealand
9 August 1996