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(meteorobs) FWD: data summary november 1997, etc


To all meteor workers, from Graham W. Wolf:-
Flat 2, 6 Main Road, Wainuiomata 6008, N.Z.
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METEOR SUMMARY FOR GRAHAM W. WOLF:- NOVEMBER 1997

DATE   UTC                                                  CLOUD  ZLM
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01    08:00 - 09:00   00 HAR                      03 SPOR   NIL    5.5
      10:00 - 16:00   07 NTA  08 STA              33 SPOR   NIL    5.3
02    08:00 - 09:00   00 HAR                      02 SPOR   NIL    5.3
      10:00 - 12:00   04 NTA  03 STA              10 SPOR   NIL    5.4
03    08:00 - 09:00   00 HAR                      04 SPOR   NIL    5.7
      10:00 - 14:00   02 NTA  03 STA              17 SPOR   NIL    5.4
05    08:00 - 09:00   00 HAR                      03 SPOR   NIL    5.8
      10:00 - 14:00   03 NTA  02 STA              17 SPOR   NIL    5.4
07    10:00 - 13:00   03 NTA  02 STA              13 SPOR   NIL    5.1
10    08:00 - 15:00   10 NTA  10 STA              31 SPOR   NIL    5.2
16    08:00 - 12:00   02 NTA  03 STA              14 SPOR   NIL    4.9
      12:00 - 15:30   00 AMO  22 LEO              15 SPOR   NIL    4.4
17    08:00 - 12:00   05 NTA  07 STA              19 SPOR   NIL    5.2
      12:00 - 15:30   02 AMO  27 LEO              13 SPOR   NIL    4.1
18    09:00 - 12:00   02 NTA  01 STA              13 SPOR   NIL    5.0
      12:00 - 15:00   03 AMO  13 LEO              11 SPOR   NIL    4.2
20    09:00 - 12:00   01 NTA  02 STA              07 SPOR   NIL    4.9
      12:00 - 15:00   06 AMO  04 LEO              11 SPOR   NIL    4.5
21    10:00 - 15:00   17 AMO  02 LEO              20 SPOR   NIL    4.5
22    09:00 - 12:00   05 NTA  04 STA              16 SPOR   NIL    5.2
      12:00 - 15:00   06 AMO                      13 SPOR   NIL    4.8
23    09:00 - 12:00   01 NTA  02 STA              11 SPOR   NIL    5.4
      12:00 - 15:00   02 AMO                      16 SPOR   NIL    5.4
24    10:00 - 15:00   02 AMO                      23 SPOR   NIL    5.4
25    10:00 - 15:00   01 AMO                      27 SPOR   NIL    5.4
26    11:00 - 15:00   00 XOR                      16 SPOR   NIL    5.6
29    09:00 - 12:00   01 XOR  02 MON              16 SPOR   NIL    5.5
      12:00 - 15:00   01 PHO                      16 SPOR   NIL    5.6
30    13:00 - 15:30   03 PHO                      16 SPOR   NIL    5.5
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 18 DATES    96.5 HRS      205 SHOWER        426 SPORADIC
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Completed datasheets will now ( due to severe financial hardship and
continued unemployment) be sent now, only to Alastair McBeath (SPAMS)
and Rainer Arlt (IMO VMDB Director). For the same reason, Alastair and
Andre Knofel (FIDAC) will receive full archival data sheets for
Fireballs. N.B. .... Alastair does detailed global analyses for "WGN",
which is why HE has been particularly chosen. The rest of you out there,
will continue to "get" these "summaries" from METEOROBS. Please download
and disemminate freely to anyone who is interested, and who can use the
data.

OTHER:-
Hale-Bopp continues to "rise" to the right and upwards towards NGC 2070
(Tarantula Nebula). Two nights ago, the comet was Mv 8.4 +/- 0.2 and
visible ALL NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. DC has fallen from 3 down to 1, and
the coma has shrunk from about 12' last month to be about 5' x 3'
elongated. It is hard to see in 7x50s from my ZLM 5.4 - 5.6 back lawn,
but I did see it clearly from Moore's Valley (ZLM 6.6) on the 4th...
thanks to a car ride from a visiting british astronomer and his new
girlfriend.

P/103 Hartley 2 continues to brithen low in the eveninbg western sky
near Beta Aquarii. Have not seen Mueller... apparently about Mv 14...
too faint for my 18cm f5.

Plenty of auroral "fireworks" last few weeks, some CMEs about. Built my
3rd generation radio astronomy observatory, complete withg RUSTRAK 288,
and got some solar flares on 136 Mhx, followed later that night by an
earlier burst that caused some mild 10 and 15 MHz fadeouts about
mid-night. Went outside after a cup of tea, and saw some IBC2 and IBC3
visuals to the S.E. that intermittently continued til daybreak about 4
1/2 hours later. Some fireballs about too, will send in a data summary
on THOSE next month.

MEANWHILE.... Merry Xmas (and a safe one at that) to all out there,
around the world, greetings to E.T, (if somehow you are reading this...
us SETI freaks are still waiting for your phone call), from both myself
and the wonderful TERESKA.



***** "Be part of the solution... not part of the problem".
***** "If you're living on the edge, you're a dull boring person, and
you're taking up too much room!"
***** "It's not what happens to me that matters, but how I react to it".

GRAHAM WOLF 4x3 RULE
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1. Meet and greet 3  complete strangers today.
2. Do at least 3 great things for humanity today (anything)
3. Learn 3 new things today.
4. Today, turn 3 negatives into POSITIVES.

MOMOK WONARGO ORA GO-YAI..... (Aborigine... Farewell, dear friend, bye
and bye, come back)

FELICE NAVIDAD, MEUNOS GRACIAS.... (Spanish)... Merry Xmas, Thanks,
heaps!

DOSVIDANIA MOY DROOK.... BOLSHOYE SPASIBA (Russian) Farewell, my
friends, many thanks!

ONE PLANET, ONE PEOPLE... A WORLD TRUELY UNITED... THROUGH ASTRONOMY



******Best wishes to all, for 1998******
Graham and Tereska (Wellington, NEW ZEALAND)
xxx    :-))))))))))))!