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(meteorobs) Observations Oct 03/04 East GA
Once again I was able to make it out to my site for
another observing session last night.
It was quite a bit cooler than on previous
nights and LM's hovered right at the 6.0 range. I observed for 2
periods with the second period, from 4:15 to 5:15 local
time, being the busiest. For once, I was not clouded out. I saw just
one DAU, 2 ANT, and 1 each the north and south apex. The rest were all
SPO's but the very last meteor of the night was probably an early ORI. I
listed it as SPO.
At 8:18 I saw a stunning, extremely slow
meteor blaze out of southern Cetus and cross slowly over into southern
Eridanus. At first it *gradually* sparked up to about -3 or a little
greater, then quickly settled into about -2 LM for the rest of it's lengthy
flight into the atmosphere, the final portion of which it began
fragmenting! I saw at least three or four small fragments during the final
two seconds of it's four second (or longer) path. It was yellow with a
< 1.0 second train.
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OBSERVER:
Kim S. Youmans (YOUKI) DATE: 10-03/04-2003
BEGIN:07:15UT END 09:15UT
LOCATION: Treutlen Co, Ga.
82. 24' 25" W; 32. 24' 45" N
METHOD: Tape Elev.
240 ft
Facing Southeast, sky 0 %0bscured
No Breaks Sol Long:
190.650
Period 1 07:15-8:15UT SPO(5) DAU(1) ANT(1)
Dead time = 0 min,
Teff = 1.0
Avg. LM = +5.98, FOV Mid period 4hrs05 +20
Sol Long.
190.621
Period 2 08:15-9:15UT SPO(11) NAPX(1) SAPX(1)
ANT(1)
Dead time = 0 min, Teff = 1.0
Avg. LM = +5.98, FOV Mid period
5hrs05 +22
Sol Long. 190.662
Showers Observed
SPO
(16)
GIA (0) 17:28 +54
DAU (1) 05:56 +49
ORI (0) 05:36 +14
NAPX (1) 06:48 +38
SAPX (1) 06:48
+08
ANT (2) 01:48 +11
Magnitude Distribution
P1
DAU
(1) +2(1)
ANT (1)
SPO
(5) +2(2)
+4(1) +5(2)
P2
SAPX(1)
+2(1)
NAPX(1)
+2(1)
ANT(1)
SPO(11) -3(1) +2(1) +3(3)
+4(4) +5(2)
Meteor #9 at 08:18 UT: -3, yellow, fragmenting,
very slow (1),
brief train (< 1.0
second) >30 degrees path
length.