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(meteorobs) June 26/27 Bootids..
Greetings all,
Was unable to stay up all last night to do visual observing... so ran a
series of photo exposures with my camera from the window ledge of my
apartment, from 5 UT to 8 UT.
Equipment used was as follows: Minolta SRT101 camera, 55mm lens at f1.7,
Kodak 320T film (high speed tungsten).
Exposures were shortened around the time of the suspected possible peak,
when I also kept an eye out for visual meteors in the field. In the 30-40
minutes I watched visually around 7 UT, activity seemed very slow - I saw
no meteors of any kind at all. Did see several satellites, and lots of
fireflies.
Sky conditions, although a bit hazy I thought, were decent. While doing
casual visual around the suspected peak time, I could see the summer Milky
Way down to the trees at my horizon, with a nice bright Scutum cloud. If
there had been any outburst in meteor activity, the sky conditions were
such that I would have at least seen something! The film will go in for
developing this week, but I do not expect June Bootids on it.
As an aside, there was one amusing moment about 7.15 UT. I was watching
out the window while running camera... and the radio came on with a song
version I had never heard before. To the tune of 'Bye, bye, American Pie',
the words went something like 'Bye bye to that Annikin guy... I wanna be a
Jedi'. Wonderful Star Wars adaptation of the original song! It was on
some obscure AM station in New York City that my night reception picked up.
Hey, even if I didn't see any June Bootids... the Milky Way down my window,
and that wonderful little Jedi song really made my night! ;>
Clear skies,
- Cathy Hall
south of Ottawa, Canada
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