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(meteorobs) Observation November 2/3, 2002 from Slovenia (late report)

Hi All,

now that the thing have settled after the Leonids I thought I would 
post my observation from early November.

The sky was unusually clear on the evening of November 2/3 so I 
decided to go to our youngest Team member Jaka. At the 
beginning the limiting magnitude was above +6.5 which is 
exceptional for this site. We took a look at a number deep sky 
objects using Jaka's 114-mm Newtonian and binoculars. Also, 
Saturn was quite decent throug a small telescope while Jupiter was 
just rising.
Seeing a number of casual meteors during that time we decided to 
conduct some meteor observations. The activity was good with 6 
shower members and 10 sporadic meteors. There were no bright 
meteors that night with the brightest being a +1 magnitude Orionid 
at the Camelopardalis/Cepheus border. The most beautiful meteor 
was an orange +3 magnitude Southern Taurid in Eridanus/Orion 
that ended in sparks.
Note: two undecided Taurids (TAU) could not be plotted as I did not 
have all Brno charts at hand.

Clear skies!
Javor.


The Summary:
Date: November 02/03, 2002
Begin: 23h 10m UT
End:   00h 34m UT
Location: l= 15o 31' 14" E, fi= 46o 23' 30" N, h= 305m
Place: Kostanjevec, Slovenia (23108)
Observer: Javor Kac (KACJA)

Period (UT) Teff  F    Lm  ORI NTA STA TAU Spor
23:10-00:34 1.32 1.00 6.21  2   1   1   2   10

Magnitude distributions:
ORI: +3(1)
NTA: +3(0.5) +4(0.5)
STA: +3(1)
TAU: +4(1) +5(1)
Spor: +1(0.5) +2(1.5) +3(2.5) +4(3) +5(2.5)

Bortle Sky Class: 4-5

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