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(meteorobs) Observation Dec 22/23
Hi!
As expected, the sky cleared one night after the outburst. Yahoo...
Anyway, I began observing as soon as it cleared, just after 11 pm. The
first thing I notice was just how cold it was, -7 C at the time. I
observed for 1.5 hrs, after that the cold got me and I went to bed.
I set my alarm clock for 3:40 in the morning, tho check on the morning
sporadic activity. I woke up at 4:10 and rushed outside - after 20 minutes
it was quite clear there was some heavy sporadic actio and that it was
*cold*! -11 C!
Most meteors I saw were faint, although there were some bright ones. The
higlight was a -3 yellow northern apex fireball at 4:55:35 UT, shooting
down Serpens. It left a 0.5 second train. Earlier, at 03:59:17 UT there
was also a nice -2 orange sporadic in Leo, it left a 3 second train. And
there was also a -2 orange sporadic in Hydra, some 8 degrees above the
southern horizon, a fireball for anyone underneath it.
There were only a few Ursids left. In the pre-midnight hour I saw 3, but
none appeared during the morning hours.
The summary:
Period F teff LM URS COM Spor
22:18-23:18UT 1.05 1.00 6.19 3 1 16
23:28-23:59UT 1.05 0.52 6.21 1 2 7
03:16-04:16UT 1.05 1.00 6.36 0 4 22
04:16-05:17UT 1.05 1.02 6.40 0 3 27
---- ------------------
3.54 4 10 72
Magnitude distribution:
Spor: -3(1) -2(2) -1(0) 0(2) +1(6) +2(11.5) +3(17) +4(16.5) +5(12) +6(4)
COM: 0(1.5) +1(0.5) +2(1) +3(2) +4(3.5) +5(1.5)
URS: +1(2) +4(1.5) +5(0.5)
Clear skies!
Jure A.
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