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(meteorobs) Draconids in Russia: First report
Greetings all!
AFTER I posted the info about IMO Circular to fido7.su.astronomy
newsgroup regretting that nobody here observed it despite my
request, I got an E-mail from Sergey E. Guryanov in Zelenogorsk,
Krasnoyarsk region (UT+0800) telling that he HAS observed outburst
at nearly the same time and with nearly the same hourly rates as
Japanese Meteor Society members did. It was him who telephoned to
Moscow office of "Stargazer" magazine and who was referred to in
Mike Boschat's message. I have given him the contact addresses of
the list, so we should expect the report from Siberia to be
available soon.
At the moment I only have the following preliminary estimates:
m lim = 3.7-4.0
Oct.8 UT ZHR
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13:10-13:20 1200
13:20-13:30 >1000
13:30-14:15 500
14:15-14:45 100
The peak was VERY narrow indeed. No any meteor was seen between
15:10 and 15:20 with the Moon elevation having reached 20 deg.
Michael Boschat wrote:
>How do the Japanese get such high ZHR's !! while others had less
>numbers, like 40-100 for a ZHR?
Looks like not just them! Note that Guryanov had higher radiant
position than Japanese observers, so he had seen more meteors and
the statistical error must be better than 50-60% which Masaaki
Takanashi has reported.
Russian Far East (Vladivostok region) was clouded out on the night
of maximum after a week of clear skies...
Denis