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Re: (meteorobs) Re: Reported Fireball Magnitudes
I have just received the preliminary fish-eye camera fireball
results from Ondrejov Observatory in the Czech Republic courtesy of Dr Jiri
Borovicka.
11/12 August - 7 Perseids (-3.0 to -5.0 magnitude range)
12/13 August - 9 Perseids (as above)
Only two meteors were brighter than magnitude -5.0
That's all that I was looking for folks, Conformation! My bright
meteor rates were no where near that high. I had an assistant on the 10/11
August that was a former head of Satellite Tracking at Cold Lake Alberta. I
worked alone on the other nights. I did not observe on a continuous bases
as I was often busy attending to the spectrographs. My observation site is
located near sea level so that may drop my magnitude perception a bit when
compared to sites at higher elevations.
It would be interesting to get fish-eye results from other
locations. Something to think about in future years.
Ed
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Edward Majden epmajden@mars.ark.com
1491 Burgess Road Meteor Spectroscopy
Courtenay, B.C. http://www.serve.com/meteors/majden.html
CANADA V9N-5R8 Amateur Astronomy
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