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(meteorobs) Re: NM98Jun2/3+2 more nights fair-dull
Three more nights of observing brought mostly a dull bunch of sporadics.
1998 June 2/3 - 3:15 hours - 21 meteors - 225 - 540 EDT
226 - 526 EDT (626 - 926 UT) all sporadics ; hourly rates 9,5,6 in sky LM7.3
Average for 20 sporadics in fully dark sky 3.40m, right at my long-term average.
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1998 June 3/4 - 2:14 hours - 18 meteors - 324 - 538 EDT
326 - 526 EDT (726 - 926 UT) all sporadics again ; hourly rates 8,10 in
sky LM7.3
Average for 18 sporadics in dark sky 3.61m, lots of faint ones.
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1998 June 4/5 - 2:04 hours - 19 meteors - 322 - 526 EDT
326 - 526 EDT (726 - 926 UT) got 2 Chi Scorpiids and 1 SAG with 16
sporadics. The setting moon affects the sky in these low elevations ; it
started at LM6.0, moonset at 330, quickly darkened to 7.3 by 342. The 15
sporadics in sky at least LM7.0 averaged 3.13m.
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There was nothing brighter than 0m seen on any of these nights. That had to
be left to Iridium flashes. Most of them are still about a magnitude
fainter than the prediction.
Joan and I have seen one flash very close to Arcturus the past 2 nights, and
there are 2 more in this series to go. Six minutes earlier each night.
June 13 evening will be our big night : 2 flashes only a minute apart. For
the first one we are nearly on the center line at home so we're going for a
-6m with twilight gone. The second one will be -2m in almost the same spot.
It was interesting to hear that Bob doesn't see many satellites going W to
E. A few degrees further south makes a big difference -- I see a lot of
these. June 3/4 the last hour there were one or two visible almost
continuously.
Norman