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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
END OF REPORT.
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