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(meteorobs) Observations: July 27-28, 2003
Hi All,
Last night I finally got to observe after a long 'down-time'... I met Bob
Lunsford and we drove up to the Alpine, California rest stop to observe what
we were HOPING was going to be *lots* of meteors. Unfortunately, SoCal is
getting hit with the usual monsoonal flow this time of year and skies were
not as dark as we would have liked them. There was a slight but noticeable
haze much of the night. I got to check out using my new Toyota Paseo
Convertible as a meteor observing 'coffin'. It worked! and it was very
comfortable. This was the first time I observed at this site (the site that
Bob L frequently reports from)... there was too much noise all night from
the mountain highway truck traffic. Probably gonna be the last time I
observe from here.
In Teff=2.45h, I managed to tally 39 meteors (formal report below). No real
highlights other than a slightly fragmenting, orange-ish, 3sec-in-duration,
magnitude 1 SPO. Other than that, most of the activity was faint, fast
(other than ACs) and short. If we favourable conditions, Bob and I will
head out again tonight.
Given that it has been many months since I last observed, it was great
meeting up with Bob and getting out underneath the stars! Hope we have
clear skies tonight!
Cheers,
Joseph Assmus
San Diego, CA USA
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Observer: Joseph D. Assmus
Place: Alpine, California
Method: pencil/paper
FOV: SSW ~60-70deg up.
Observed Meteor Showers
NDA North Delta Aquarids
SDA South Delta Aquarids
PER Perseids
AC Alpha Capricornids
SPO Sporadics
Time [UT] Lm Teff NDA SDA PER AC SPO Total
0730-0830 5.98 0.97 0 7 2 3 7 19
0830-0930 5.98 0.98 0 2 0 1 8 11
0930-1000 5.98 0.49 0 1 2 0 6 9
Total 2.45 0 10 4 4 21 39
Magnitude Distribution
Shower -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Mean
SDA 6 4 2.40
AC 4 2.00
PER 1 1 2 2.25
SPO 1 3 15 16 4 2.67
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