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(meteorobs) Oct 8/9 good skies, few GIA
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To: "Attilla Danko" <danko@norteldot ca>, <meteorobs@latrade.com>, "Mich=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=e8le_Martin?=" <Michele_Martin@pcbedot edu.ondot ca>, "Patrick Marleau" <Patrick.Marleau@wanadoo.fr>, "Rob darkbeing" <darkbeing@sprynet.com>, "Bruce Clarke" <bdclarke@magi.com>, "Yves Paris" <paris.yves@sympaticodot ca>, "Rock Mallin" <adave@cyberusdot ca>, "Jason Mainville" <ngc7293@istardot ca>, "Doug George" <dgeorge@cyanogen.com>
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Subject: (meteorobs) Oct 8/9 good skies, few GIA
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From: Pierre Martin <p.martin@cyberusdot ca>
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Date: Fri, 9 Oct 98 04:49:07 -0400
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Reply-To: meteorobs@latrade.com
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Sender: owner-meteorobs
Hello,
Just coming back from over 6.5 hours teff observation from a dark
sky site west of Ottawa, ON. I began observing at dusk. Skies were
mainly clear for the whole session. A few clouds of about 10% FOV
during last hour interfered.
GIA (Draconids) activity was very low. All other showers not observed
and called SPO. Saw only one GIA (hour before local midnight) that I
could well confirm. Certainly was a fine meteor and it made up for an
otherwise quiet night. It appeared very low over the western horizon,
magnitude -1, yellow-white, slow to very slow, 2-3 sec dur, no train
and 18 degree path. Because of the very low elevation, no plotting was
possible but quick string-alignment method proved it was a GIA. Was
quite lucky to see it in a hole in between trees.
Cathy, did you see it?
Also noted some long path, fast velocity meteors apparently coming
from east (perhaps early Orionids). Otherwise, a slowww night.
It seems the GIA peak was indeed short lived for those who were
fortunate to see it. Hopefully some activity will appear for Oct 9/10.
I will be observing again just in case.
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Pierre Martin . . * . * . .
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