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(meteorobs) Fw: [RASCALS] Geminids from Thunder Bay
Greetings all,
This is forwarded from our RASC list in Canada. The report is from an
observer in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
- C. Hall
----- Original Message -----
From: Doug <doug@MAIL.LAKEHEADdot net>
To: <RASCALS@ap.stmarysdot ca>
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 6:21 PM
Subject: [RASCALS] Geminids from Thunder Bay
> Greetings fellow RASCals.
>
> I used 100Mhz FM to monitor the activity of the Geminids.
> Between 11:15pm and 11:25pm I detected 25 meteors. Then
> again between 11:40pm and 11:50pm I detected 20 meteors.
> This suggested a reasonably good meteor shower, as far as
> the Geminids are concerned.
>
> When I had completely given up on doing any visual meteor
> observing, the clouds started to break apart around 5:10am.
> I saw 3 Geminids between the clouds. By 5:25am it became
> obvious the clouds were going to disappear completely!
>
> I drove out to my observing site and began simultaneous
> visual and radio observation of the meteors at 5:45am.
> This was the first time for me using both observing methods
> at the same time and I wanted to see how good a correlation
> there is between seeing a meteor and "hearing" it, on the
> radio.
>
> The sky was completely clear as I predicted. The limiting
> visual magnitude was at least 5.5 . The temperature was
> "warm" for this time of year, -5C with light winds. And
> best of all, no car headlights interrupted me during my
> observing.
>
> The clouds only stayed away for 45 minutes, but during that
> time I "heard" 86 meteors, saw 25 Geminids and 13 of the
> visual detections had a corresponding radio signal.
>
>
> Doug Stuart
> Thunder Bay
>
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