(meteorobs) Radio Leonids 2001 from Kangaroo Island Australia

Lew Gramer <dedalus@latrade.com> · Wed, 05 Dec 2001 12:35:05 -0500


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>From: Fraser Farrell <fraser@trilobytes.com.au>
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>Yet another non-variable-stars-related posting, but I'm sure Doug will
>forgive us because of the remarkable events last weekend.
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>The following message was posted to our local astronomy list by Scott
>Johnston, who lives on Kangaroo Island about 120km SW of Adelaide, South
>Australia. KI was totally clouded out on Sunday night-Monday morning so Scott
>did some radio astronomy instead.
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>FYI all times quoted are local (UT +10h30m) and the Leonid radiant would have
>risen for Scott at about 2:55am. Sunrise was at about 6am.
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>Overnight Sunday, I ran a chart recorder attached to an FM receiver set to
>detect the Leonids (by picking up radio signals reflected from their
>tails). I now have a nice graph of events but am not exactly sure of the
>time for them ( the chart recorder I used had a couple of problems!).
>As far as I can tell from the graph, the first big meteor came through at
>about 2:08 am another at 2:41 and a couple more 3:23 and 3:32. Then there
>was a whole mob of events between 3:42 and 3:51 a small quiet spell and
>then another surge between 4:20 and 4:41.
>Do these times tally with visual observations?
>What happened beyond 4:41 I'll never know because the reflected signal was
>so strong it jammed the pen!
>Regards
>Scott.
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>cheers,
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>Fraser Farrell
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