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(meteorobs) Re: Ursids
Ed,
Actually you should look at the most active hour to gauge the ZHR. My
most active hour that particular night produced 26 Ursids which would
give a ZHR in the neighborhood of 75.
Clear Skies!
Bob
Ed Cannon wrote:
>
> Last December Bob Lunsford reported here that in 1993 he
> saw 81 Ursids in five hours. (What ZHR would that yield?)
>
> http://www.tiacdot net/users/lewkaren/meteorobs/msg16698.html
>
> That's almost as good as my very first attempt at meteor
> shower observing, the Perseids one year in the early 90's,
> when I saw 80 of them between 9:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. (I
> knew even less about meteor showers back then and was
> unaware of the fact that I went out several hours too early!
> About the only information I had was news reports on TV and
> in the local newspaper. But I started seeing them as soon
> as it was dark enough. I saw quite a few streak through
> very long paths across the sky during the earliest part of
> the session, presumably Perseid earth-grazers. I was
> truly thrilled to see so many meteors!)
>
> Even though here the Ursid radiant only gets up to about 40
> degrees above the horizon by dawn and is only about 15
> degrees up at 6:00 UTC, I'm planning to try to see some. In
> spite of the moonlight I plan to look for Geminids too since
> I saw 15 or 16 of them one morning from the middle of Austin
> in less than an hour Teff just before dawn. I think that was
> 1996.
>
> Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexasdot edu - Austin, Texas, USA
> http://wwwvms.utexasdot edu/~ecannon/meteorlinks.html
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