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Re: (meteorobs) Geminids mini storm from MBK 13/14.12.1999
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> Od: Asaf Shtull-Trauring <nidned@yahoo.com>
> Za: meteorobs@jovian.com; elizabeta.zakrajsek@guest.arnesdot si
> Zadeva: Re: (meteorobs) Geminids mini storm from MBK 13/14.12.1999
> Datum: 20. december 1999 17:41
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> > never! LM reaching 7.34. I have never observed at
> > such LM! It was great!
>
> How did you get to such precision of finding the
> limiting magnitude? Anyway, I believe it's impossible
> of viewing over 6.5 magnitude, which is the top limit
> of human eyes.
Not really. If you go to some remote place, say middle of
a desert, your LM can reach +7.8 (Lew is one of those...:).
S. O'Meara reportedly even reached +8.4 on top of Manua
Kea in 1983 when he was searching for comet Halley.
I really don't know where this +6.5 mark has come from.
Personally, I know I frequantly reach +6.8 to +6.9, sometimes
+7.0.
>
> > You cant imagine how many meteors of magnitud 5.5
> > and 6 beceme visibal at
> > this LM! As the radiant moved higher the geminid
> > activity was biger and
> > biger reachig even 10 metors per minut, but not many
> > bright geminids were
> > there! Ofcourse we saw 9 bolids, but the brightest
> > was a -6 (i saw only a
>
> Very interesting. 10 meteors per minute.
You sound a bit sceptic. It really is a lot of meteors for
Geminids, but they were there. I saw them. Btw.
who are you to complain?!?! You saw 100 per minute!!
:)
Ok, it was not really a mini storm, but during some moments
it was really exciting - minutes with over 5 meteors.
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