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(meteorobs) Giacobinids Oct8/9 1998 a non storm.
Oct8/9 1998
An observation session was carried out at Rottenrow Farm, Ayrshire,
Scotland, UK. from 19.54UT to 20.30UT with a rising gibbous moon and an
increasingly hazy sky with a zenithal limiting magnitude starting about
magnitude 4.5. The sky was obscured by haze below a line through delta and
beta Hercules through Bootes and below the dipper of Ursa Major. By 20.20
the radiant was covered in haze leaving the sky from Cygnus and Cepheus
clearly 20.30 the whole sky was hazy with a limiting magnitude around
magnitude 3 and the observing session was ended.
Two meteors were seen at 19.55UT, a magnitude 1, short lived flash close to
the radiant and, at 20.10UT a short path length slow yellow meteor
magnitude 0 in Hercules.
A possible Taurid was observed low in the east with a long short lived
train. Allowing for the considerable obscuration this must have been a
fairly bright meteor.
Both the observed meteors were close to the radiant as were two meteors seen
prior to moonrise in a short, few minute, casual observing session ( while
awaiting dinner). Both meteors were yellow, aproximately magnitude 1, with
short paths, just below the radiant, appearing as short lines like dashes in
the sky.
Nick Martin, Bonnyton House, By Ayr, Ayrshire KA6 7EW ,Scotland, UK.
Latitude 55 24'56" Longtitude 4 26' 00".
"Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light, ....."
He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven by W.B. Yeats