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Re: (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


Hello Bob / Joseph,

nice set of data : I hope you were as lucky on 28/29 as we were !

Best wishes,

Carl

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