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(meteorobs) FINAL?: Telescopic Meteor Report Form, GRALE, 06/07 Mar 2000


Here's what I hope is a final form for the Telescopic report form. At
Malcolm's urging, I've reformatted the report to make it more human-
readable. To Malcolm and other potential users world-wide, please let
me know how this looks! BTW, Malcolm, I also need your postal address.

Clear skies and happy plotting!
Lew Gramer


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TELESCOPIC METEOR REPORT FORM
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DATE: 2000-03-06/07     OBSERVER: Lewis Gramer (GRALE).

LOCATION: Long 70o 40' 55"W; Lat 41o 51' 12"N; Elev 5m.
SITE: Myles Standish State Forest, South Carver MA USA.
INSTRUMENT: 127 mm f/5 altazimuth refractor.
MAGNIFICATION: 18x. True Field: 3.3 degrees.
LM: Telescopic >11.5, Visual =6.7 (IMO #10).
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Session #          : 1       2
Begin UT           : 0605    0710
End UT             : 0644    0800
Duration (min)     : 39      50
Total Breaks (min) : 0       8
Dead Time (min)    : 10      10
Teff               : 0.48    0.53
LM                 : >11.5   >11.5
Chart              : TC103   TC147
X-reference (2000) : 001     002
Chart       AB     : 162.7   161.9
 fiduciary  BD     : 161.1   161.1
 distances  DC     : 161.9   161.9
 (in mm)    CA     : 161.1   161.1
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COMMENTS:
Possible Fog, no wind, rel. hum. 70%, temp 38oF.
120 seconds of dead-time was deducted per plotted meteor.
Binocular Charts used were laterally inverted from field of view of refractor.
Plots will be postal-mailed to Malcolm Currie.
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METEOR DATA:
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#   Time   Mag   Vel   Type   Rel  Trn  Xb    Yb    Xe    Ye     Remarks
==  ====   ====  ==     ==    ===  ==== ===== ===== ===== =====  ===============
1   0610   10.5  C?     II    I         99.5  112.5 93.5  114.0  #Vel uncertain
2   0615   10    B      II    II        75.0  129.0 72.5  136.0  
3   0622   9.5   C      OI    II        118.5 127.0 111.0 120.5  
4   0628   5     A      OO    I         45.0  75.0  121.5 76.5   #Very slow!
5   0635   3     D      OO    I    4.0  41.0  96.0  81.5  155.5  #No color: Why?
6   0715   10    E      II    II        99.5  94.5  105.0 94.0   #My first Fast!
7   0721   9     D      II    II        110.0 108.0 113.5 103.0
8   0738   10    C      II    I         113.5 84.0  117.0 76.0
9   0752   11    D      II    I         128.5 74.5  129.5 80.0
10  0758   10.5  B      II    I         132.5 80.0  132.0 73.0
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EXPLANATION OF METEOR DATA:
 All Times are in UT, to the nearest minute.
 Meteor angular 'Vel'ocity measured on a relative A-F scale, F being fastest.
 Plot 'Type' is one of OO,II,OI,IO depending on whether each plotted meteor
   began and ended 'I'n or 'O'ut of telescope field of view.
 'Rel' describes accuracy of plot on I-III scale, I being most accurate.
 'Trn' describes train duration in seconds.
 'Xb,Yb,Xe,Ye' meteor-plot coordinates are in mm, from lower left inner corner.
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