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Re: (meteorobs) Re- Geminids Down Under
G'Day All
At 19:08 16/12/99 -0000, Trevor Pendelton wrote:
>May I also echo Lew's comments regarding the Geminids from Australia. Let's
>hope that more reports are forthcoming on the southern meteor showers well
>out of reach to those of us who live north of the equator. Any personal
>insights, are to me, most welcome reading on the meteorobs list.
A group of meteor observers are forming the Eastern Australian Meteor
Observers network, so expect some fuller reports of meteor activity next year.
I was viewing from Suburban Melbourne (Victoria 37.8500S, 145.3670E) about
8 K from the city centre.
On the morning of the 14th from 0.55 to 1.45 AEDST, I saw ONE geminid (and
one
sporadic) with a limiting Magnitude of 5.0 and the radiant around 10 to 15
deg above the horizon.
On the evening of the 14th, encroaching high level cloud in the north west
made me abandon my Lunar Geminids observations, and stuffed up my
observation of the close approach of Mars and Uranus, so I decided to got
to bed early, got my gear set-up and alarm set and headed to bed.
And slept through my alarm!!! Not only that, my wife slept through it, and
the baby slept through his customary 1.00 am feed. <sigh> When I got up at
5.30 am, the north eastern sky was covered in cloud, and another caostal
Victorian observer told me that high cloud blotted out his view, so I don't
feel so bad. However, a Melbourne observer in the northern mountains had a
splendid view, so I still feel a bit of a git for not waking up.
From Roberts post:
Dec 14/15 (23:00->05:00 local time = 12:00->18:00UT)
LM=6.2 (~120km east of Melbourne)
Moonset at about 01:00 (13:00)
12:00->12:59UT 0 GEM, 0 HYD, 7 SPO : 7
13:00->13:59UT 14 GEM, 0 HYD, 6 SPO : 20
14:00->14:59UT 23 GEM, 2 HYD, 12 SPO : 37
15:00->15:59UT 22 GEM, 0 HYD, 7 SPO : 29
16:00->16:59UT 20 GEM, 0 HYD, 9 SPO : 29
17:00->17:59UT 22 GEM, 0 HYD, 10 SPO : 32
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TOTAL 101 GEM, 2 HYD, 51 SPO : 154 in total
From EAMO member Greg Hudson at Olinda
Dec 14/15 LM 6.2 (~40 K north of the city centre of Melbourne)
12:00->12:59UT 1 GEM
13:00->13:59UT 13 GEM
14:00->14:59UT 16 GEM
15:00->15:59UT 4 GEM
16:00->16:59UT 11 GEM
17:00->17:30UT 9 GEM
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TOTAL 54 GEM, HYD not observed, 17 SPO : 71 in total
Which broadly agree except around 15:00->15:59.
Hope this is usefull.
Cheers! Ian
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