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(meteorobs) Re: Nice figures

Hi!

> 1)Did you plot all these figures during the the lightfloods or after 
> the your football team gave up playing?

I think it was only a training session and yes, they stopped by the 
time I started the real observation (and the football site is 
south-east of me, which is a bad part of the sky due to more light 
pollution anyway. I'm actually living right at the border of strong 
light pollution from Stuttgart, which makes that part of the sky 
quite unenjoyable).

> 2)Did you light on your figures, or were you desesperately waiting
> for a good time? I mean, dark skies conditions?

Maybe I don't quite understand what you mean by that question. If you 
are referring to the limiting magnitude, it's around five most of the 
time at my site (unless there's moonlight or haze), and we have quite 
clear winter nights right now here in southwestern Germany. I 
determine the lm by marking some of the faintest stars I can still 
see on a sky map, as the normal "counting fields" method has often 
resulted in contrary results (over 0.5mag difference between two 
fields on the same evening). The magnitudes of these stars can be 
checked using http://www.nofs.navy.mil/data/FchPix/ if the stars are 
not in the Flamesteed catalogue.

> 3)Even not refering the weather conditions, it seems to me that your
> magnitudes on showers were very brilliant for the time. Just see
> your figures posted on magnitude table.

If you are referring to the meteor magnitudes, observations like these 
with only 3-4 meteors probably can't give any statistically 
interesting numbers. If you have any further questions, please post 
the lines of the report that are of interest for you.

> Obs.: You posted very organized charts. I also take advantage to
> congratulate all observers that plotted during the (*low peak*)
> month of January.

Thank you, I think it's a good idea to start plotting during the "low 
peak" time (especially when there are nice and clear winter nights).

> Sincerely,
>
> Marco Valois

Greetings

Daniel Gruen
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