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(meteorobs) Observation Feb 02/03 (LINMI)



Last night was our monthly star party on Oahu's north 
shore, and I took advantage of perfectly clear skies to do 
some evening meteorobs before the moon arose. Conditions 
were fairly typical of this location at an airfield just a 
few hundred meters from the ocean - very muggy and dewing, 
with a lot of SCT's and refractors put out of service...

But the air above was fairly dry and good LM's lasted all 
night. I observed for about a half hour and saw 5 meteors. 
3 SPO, 1 ANT and 1 AHY. No activity was seen from the 2 
southern radiants ACN or DVE, even thought they were near 
their optimum altitude. However, when I was packing up, 
around 11:45pm I saw a mag 1 meteor flash acrosss the 
zenith from south to north. It lined up well with the DVE, 
but just too swift to associate it with that stream.

Next weekend I may try looking out for the IMO streams as 
the moon will no longer be an interference.

BTW, slightly OT, there's a lot of other activity going on 
up there these days. A brightening supernova in M74 (mag 
12.5), the new comet C/2002 C1 (mag 8.3), and a peculiar 
nova (/supernova?) in Monoceros currently at mag 7.4!

Clear skies & Aloha!
Mike Linnolt


REPORT FOLLOWS:
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OBS: Mike Linnolt (LINMI)
DATE: Feb 03, 2002
TIME: 0840 - 0915 UT (10:40pm - 11:15pm HST evening of Feb 
02)
LOC: Dillingham, Oahu, HI (21° 34' N, 158° 12m W)
ELEV: 5m
Conditions: Clear. Temp 68F. RH 90%. Winds light.
METHOD: Paper


Observing Periods Summary:
==========================

# Period(UT) FOV   Teff  F  LM   ACN  DVE  AHY  VIR  SPO
  ---------- ---   ----  -  ---  ---  ---  ---  ---  ---
1 0840-0915 07h+10 0.57 1.0 6.3   0    0    1    1    3

VIR (IMO) = ANT

Periods Detail:
===============

Period #1:
----------

Mag -3 -2 -1 0 +1 +2 +3 +4 +5 +6      elev  r  ZHR
------------------------------------------------------
ACN: 0  0  0 0  0  0  0  0  0  0 = 0   13° 2.5
DVE: 0  0  0 0  0  0  0  0  0  0 = 0   19° 3.0
AHY: 0  0  0 0  0  0  1  0  0  0 = 1   37° 2.8  3.6 +/-3.6
VIR: 0  0  0 0  0  0  0  1  0  0 = 1   54° 2.3  2.6 +/-2.6
SPO: 0  0  0 0  0  0  0  1  1  1 = 3   --  2.5  6.3 +/-3.6

DEAD TIME: 4 min


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