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Re: (meteorobs) AMO activity
This was interesting, Mark - well, with the paucity of people observing for this
shower this year (and who could blame them during 1999 LEO peak???), we may just
have to put this one down to "scatter". That is, unless some of the video teams
out those nights have analyzed their data now for AMO candidates?
I know for example the team in Florida did note possibly higher "Sporadic"
numbers during some hours I logged additional AMO activity. Clearly, with such a
low average magnitude, a spike if it occured would have been best observed via
video or telescopic plotting. Malcolm, have you compiled telescopic results from
the 16/ 17 and 17/18 Nov yet? Any unusual AMO numbers?
Thanks all! I'm just curious that if there IS corroborating evidence, it doesn't
get overlooked in all of the "lion droppings". ;>
Clear skies,
Lew Gramer (GRALE)
Lew asked:
>>Mark Davis, what other data have you gotten on the AMOs these two days?
And Mark Davis replied:
> Considering the number of observers out, and the reported Teff, there wasn't
> a great amount of action reported from the AMOs on those dates. There were
> at least an equal number of negative reports (none observed) as there were
> positive. (However, the majority of observers did not monitor them at all.)
>
> This is what I found from the reports:
>
> November 16/17:
> Lew Gramer 0456-0555 1 AMO
> Lew Gramer 0556-0655 6 AMO
> Lew Gramer 0656-0755 1 AMO
> Wayne Hally 0712-0812 1 AMO
> Lew Gramer 0856-0955 5 AMO
> Lew Gramer 0956-1050 1 AMO
>
> November 17/18:
> Robert Lunsford 0200-0300 1 AMO
> Pierre Martin 0300-0413 3 AMO
> Lew Gramer 0556-0655 1 AMO
> Lew Gramer 0656-0755 6 AMO
> George Gliba 0700-0800 4 AMO
> Wayne Hally 0720-0820 1 AMO
> Lew Gramer 0756-0855 4 AMO
> George Gliba 0800-0900 1 AMO
> Wayne Hally 0825-0955 1 AMO
> Lew Gramer 0856-0955 1 AMO
> George Gliba 0900-1000 4 AMO
> Lew Gramer 0956-1050 4 AMO
>
> Concerning the possible AMO activity observed by Rui Qi (reported by Jin
> Zhu) on November 12/13, I observed similar activity from Canis Major on the
> 9/10 and 10/11. Of the two dates, more activity was noted on the 9/10.
> Unfortunately, I was not able to get back out to continue monitoring it
> until the 15/16, which by then, no more activity was noted. When I observed
> these meteors, I was also facing south in an effort to catch Taurid
> activity, but did not consider those as AMO candidates due to how far they
> were from the radiant, and their slower velocity.
>
> During the two dates originally asked about above, I observed for a total
> of about 11 hours, and saw no AMO activity.
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