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(meteorobs) Observations June 3/4: no Arietids
Hi!
Last night I observed for 4 hours. After some cirrus clouds passed over
during the day, the sky cleared up during the evening. It looked promising
but the LM's were almost constant at 6.0 with a minor drop to 6.2 during
the last period. The first three periods the activity was low, I was
constantly
considering taking a break, but every time I decided to do a break, a
meteor
appeared and I stayed a bit longer. When my batteries failed during the
second hour, I took a 13 minute break. I bet I didn't miss anything...
The primary reason for my observations was to catch a potential
Arietid grazer. I observed quite long into some serious twilight, but none
appeared. I guess I'll have to try again tonight :) If you look at the
summary, you'll see that the fourth hour exploded with meteors. There
were meteors everywhere. My plots reveal no less than 7 meteors
coming from the northern and 2 meteors from the southern branch
of the apex. The first really good meteor appeared at the end of the
first period, a loong (40 degrees) +2.0 yellow meteor with a 2 second
train. Looked much like an early evening Perseid. Two other good meteors
were a pair of 0 mags from apex. One was yellow with a 0.5 second train,
the other pure white, only 4 degrees long with a 4 second train. Tons of
mostly bright (!!) meteors during that hour.
I had a meteor that lined up with the Arietid radiant, the speed was also
OK, but it was too short...
The summary:
Period F Lm teff SAG OSC DAR SPO TOT
20:45-21:45UT 1.00 6.08 0.95 0 1 - 8 9
21:45-22:45UT 1.00 6.06 0.74 1 0 - 5 6
22:45-23:46UT 1.00 6.06 0.98 1 0 - 6 7
00:05-01:05UT 1.00 6.19 0.95 0 0 0 20 20
01:05-01:30UT 1.00 5.99 0.39 0 0 0 6 6
4.01 2 1 0 45 48
Magnitude distribution:
SPO: 0(3) +1(3) +2(9) +3(12.5) +4(12) +5(5) +6(0.5)
SAG: +1(0.5) +2(0.5) +3(1)
OSC: +4(1)
During this night's observations I have passed my 100 hour mark. In fact, I
now
have 103.99hrs teff with 1175 meteors this year so far. I'll be out again
tonight,
but only during the morning hours...
Clear skies!!
Jure A.
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