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(meteorobs) Observation May 14/15 2001
Greetings,
Here's a late report... On May 14/15, I headed out to Casselman for a
late evening meteor session. I had the company of Denis Legault who
was doing deep sky objects with his scope. It was a pleasant evening,
relatively mild.
I signed-on for over 2 hours, recording a total of 8 meteors under
magn 6.3 skies. The first hour was a real lull with only 1 sporadic.
The second hour did much better with both sporadics and Alpha
Scorpiids (Sagittarids) active.
Nicest meteor was a white magn 0 Alpha Scorpiid (SAG) moving in Ophiuchus.
Saw an unexpected iridium satellite slowly flaring to magn -3 high in the west.
Pierre Martin
Ottawa, Ontario
DATE: May 14/15 2001
BEGIN: 3:30 UT (23:30 EDT) END: 5:42 UT (1:42 EDT)
OBSERVER: Pierre Martin (MARPI)
LOCATION: Long: -75.063 West; Lat: 45.269 North Elevation:100m
City & Province: Casselman, Ontario, CANADA
RECORDING METHOD: talking clock/tape recorder
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OBSERVED SHOWERS: 3-letter code; radiant position
SCO (Alpha Scorpiids - IMO Sagittarids) 16h25 -20
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OBSERVING PERIODS: 0 = none seen; / = shower not observed
PERIOD(UT) FIELD Teff F LM SPO SCO
3:30-4:30 15h25 +15 1.00 1.00 6.26 1 0
4:30-5:42 15h56 +15 1.17 " 6.35 4 3
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TOTALS: 2.17 5 3 = 8
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MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTIONS:
SHOWER 0 +1 +2 +3 +4 +5 AVERAGE
SPO 0 0 0 1 3 1 +4.0
SCO 1 0 1 0 1 0 +2.0
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TOTALS: 1 0 1 1 4 1
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SKY OBSCURED:
None
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Dead time: 1.73 min (total), 1.4 min (plots)
Breaks: 4:30 (20sec)
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