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(meteorobs) Meteor report from Itay

Hi Mark and the rest of the list!

I have to tell you that you are not the only one who had not much luck with 
the weather. Since I'm more into astronomy and I subscribed to this list I 
wanted to watch a good shower. This was shortly before the Leonids. But the 
Leonids were clouded. Geminids were clouded too. At the time for the quads I 
was on holidays and there I had the oppoturnity just to go outside and watch 
the stars and look for possible meteors (normally I live in the city, so 
it's not easy to see anything from there and going outside is a little 
difficult late at night, because I do not have the driver licence now. I 
have to wait another year to do it). But now back to the quads. I prepared 
for them (the only problem was, that I did not know which time to go out, 
because I did not have the www and left my books at home). But after a lot 
of clear  nights it began to be cloudy at January 3rd. January 4th it was 
totally clouded. January 5th was 100% free, but I did not have time that 
evening.
Now a small report from January 2nd.
Time: 17.50UT - 18.30UT and 21.45UT - 22.15UT
Meteors: 5
The first appeared at 17.55UT heading from N to S. It had a magnitude about 
2M. The second came at 18.03UT and headed to SW. It appaered smaller and 
more far away. The magnitude was around 2.5M to 3M. The third came shortly 
afterwards at 18.14UT. It had the same data, or nearly the same, as the 
first one. The 4th came at 18.24UT and headed to WSW. It left quite a long 
tail and the head and the tail of the meteor was dark orange and red. The 
corpus looked quite big and it looked like, as is it was divided, because 
there was a black line going from the front to the back. The magnitude was 
around -2.5M. (It was much brighter than Jupiter). The 5th meteor crossed 
the sky at 21.53UT quite high and was quite dark.
Location: Near Siena, Italy
Clear skys to all,
Philipp Schmid
P.S.: With the magnitudes I'm not really sure, because I never did this 
before and just read about it. Could someone give me some advise or tips? 
Thanks.



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