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RE: (meteorobs) Ursids in cloudy metro Washington, DC
I am up in Northern Virginia doing some work for the Department of Navy.
When we packed for these few days up here from Central Virginia, I even
remembered my electric blanket in order to try and observe the Ursids on Dec
21/22. However, the only "blanket" that came into play was the blanket of
clouds that were over us in the Gainesville/Haymarket region of Northern VA.
By midnight, I finally went off to bed and called it a night.
Early reports indicate that the Ursids were their usual "minor shower" self.
My last good look at the Ursids was in the early 1980's where I saw about
10/hour under dark skies in Vero Beach, Florida. This meteor shower is
somewhat special to me as it falls on Mama's birthday which is just a week
before mine. Hope everyone has a wonderful HOLiday Season and a Grand New
Millenium ahead!!! Now on to the Quadrantids!
In Astronomical Affinity - Felix A. Martinez
------Original Message------
From: "Richard Taibi" <rjtaibi@hotmail.com>
To: meteorobs@jovian.com
Sent: December 22, 2000 11:34:15 AM GMT
Subject: (meteorobs) Ursids in cloudy metro Washington, DC
Hi Everyone,
I tried to chase a clearing trend I saw in satellite IR imagery in
northern Virginia. I only succeeded in getting 10-30% clear skies at
8:36-9:23 UT: no Ursids, no fireballs, no prodigious rate.
I just read Rainer's and Sirko's data. Their trends toward higher hourly
rates looked encouraging, however, were those attributable to greater
radiant heights alone? Also encouraging were the minus magnitude URS's
being seen. Most of the Ursids I've seen have been +2 or fainter. The only
minus URS I saw was a -2 just before morning twilight in 1993. Bob Lunsford
went on, in California, to see 81 URS which included a -8 FB. Time will
tell what happened today.
Rainer, I converted -5C to Fahrenheit: +23F. Either way the human body
suffers the same, nicht wahr?
Rich Taibi
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