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Re: (meteorobs) Eta Lyrid Meteors Seen!
Hi list
Last night (12-13 may), I finally had a short observing session. After a
rainy day, the clouds disappeared ...but with our Belgian humidity for the
moment.. I was very quickly surrounded by several fog banks. And I think you
can already guess the final result of this observing session... He guys,
this isn't fair any more...; this is may : autumn starts in October !!
I watched for meteors, especially for the Eta's, between 21.55 and 23.00 UT
(1.08 Teff). Lm reached 6.20 in the zenith. But under 20 degrees : Scopius
and Corvus were difficult to see. That explains a lot of the moderate (or
bad ?) observing conditions I had last night.
The meteor activity was also very low ; at 22.07 UT a fast +5 sporadic in
Coma Berenices, and at 22.13 UT a +3 Eta Lyrid.
Last year I saw Eta Lyrids during 2 nights : 11-12 / 12-13 may, 11 on 12.
There is indeed a minor activity of this stream detectable.
Also pretty to get a glimpse of Ikeya Zhang after a month ; "you really were
a big one !"
Clear skies filled with dry air and shooting stars !
Michel Vandeputte
Dutch Meteor Society
VVS Belgium - meteor section
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---- Original Message -----
From: "Stop Light Pollution!" <GLIBA@grovx0.gsfc.nasadot gov>
To: <meteorobs@atmob.org>
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 3:47 PM
Subject: (meteorobs) Eta Lyrid Meteors Seen!
> May 10/11, 2002 - Mathias, West Virginia
> Eta Lyrid Meteors from Iras-Araki-Alcock Seen!
>
> I was out meteor observing under good clear moonless skies on
Saturday
> morning, May 10/11, and was impressed by the number of Eta Lyrid meteors
that
> were seen! You may recall from Bob Lunsford's last Meteor Activity Outlook
> for May 10-16, 2002, that the Eta Lyrids are a suspected new meteor shower
> caused by remnants of comet Iras-Araki-Alcock, which approached Earth back
> in May 1983. The orbit of the comet lies close enough to Earth between May
> 4th and May 18th to produce minor activity. From 5:30 to 8:30 UT, I
observed
> 12 ELY meteors from the radiant at 19:20 (290) +44. Half of the ELY
meteors
> were 4th or 5th magnitude, but a couple were 1st and -1 magnitudes. They
were
> of medium speed. Below is a brief summary of them and the other meteors
seen.
> I will send a complete report to Bob later for AMS.
>
> Date Time LM Obst. ELY ANT NPX SPX ETA CAU SPO Total
FOV
> May 10/11 5:30-6:30 6.4 0% 4 2 2 0 0 0 9 17
18.3+35
> May 10/11 6:30-7:30 6.5 0% 5 2 0 0 0 0 5 12
20.3+40
> May 10/11 7:30-8:30 6.4 0% 3 1 2 1 3 2 7 19
21.0+30
>
> Eta Lyrids - Magnitude Distribution
>
> Date Time LM Obst. -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 Total
> May 10/11 5:30-6:30 6.4 0% 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 4
> May 10/11 6:30-7:30 6.5 0% 1 0 0 1 0 1 2 5
> May 10/11 7:30-8:30 6.4 0% 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 3
>
>
> GWG
>
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