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(meteorobs) 2003 Leonids by Visual Obs in JAPAN



Hello all,

2003 Leonids FLASH result by Japanese Visual Observation.
1499 trail was predicted around 15:00-18:00 13/14 night.
It was clear sky in Japan. So, many observed data were
reported. Most of observers said "Almost of meteors were
faint".


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    2003 Leonids FLASH in JAPAN (Visual Observation)
             (The Nippon Meteor Society)
        - calculated by Shigeo UCHIYAMA(NMS) -
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(1) Daily Result

 DATE(UT)  Nind.  Teff  LEO  HRave  ZHRave  Err.
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 Nov  13d   17   39.2  438  11.2     54.4  2.6

(2) Hourly Result

   DATE  (UT)  Nobs  Teff  LEO  HRave  ZHRave  Err.
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 Nov 13d 16:00  10    6.3   30    4.8    38.0   6.9
 Nov 13d 17:00  12    9.0   70    7.8    46.1   5.5
 Nov 13d 18:00  15   11.6  146   12.6    59.2   4.9
 Nov 13d 19:00  12    9.3  132   14.2    56.7   4.9
 Nov 13d 20:00   4    3.0   60   20.0    63.1   8.1

 Total Leonid meteors :  438
 Total Observed Time  :   39.2hr

* excluding:observations under unfavorable condition
   (Lm<4.0mag, Cl>=0.3, RP-h<15deg)

Nind.: the number of observers during night
Nobs : the number of observers
Teff : observed period (hr)
LEO  : the number of Leonid meteors
HRave: average HR
ZHRave:average ZHR population index = 2.2
Err. : ZHRave/sqrt(LEO)

Observers (17observers):
Erika MATSUMOTO, Erina YANAGIDA, Hiroshi OGAWA, 
Kayo MIYAO, Kazuhiro SUMIE, Kazuhiro OSADA, 
Kazumi TERAKUBO, Ken-ichi FUSHIMI, Koetsu SATO,
Masayuki TODA, Masayuki YAMAMOTO, Mikiya SATO,
Satoshi KARIYA, Shigeo UCHIYAMA, Takashi SEKIGUCHI,
Takema HASHIMOTO, Tomoko SATO,

(We also received by Minako OHTA)

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In this time, since this report is FLASH for whole
Leonid period, population index is 2.2
On 13/14 night, however, there were many faint meteors.
This means a large population index. Therefore, Mr.Shigeo
UCHIYAMA caluclated other population index as following.

--Daily Result
DATE(UT)    r    ZHRave  Err.
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Nov.13d    2.5    63.5   3.0
Nov.13d    3.0    78.4   3.7
Nov.13d    3.5    92.8   4.4

--Hourly Result

  DATE         ZHR(ave)   ZHR(ave)   ZHR(ave)
  (UT)          r=2.5       r=3.0     r=3.5
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Nov. 13d 16:00   44.2       54.3       64.3
Nov. 13d 17:00   54.1       67.4       80.4
Nov. 13d 18:00   69.6       86.8      103.9
Nov. 13d 19:00   66.3       82.1       97.3
Nov. 13d 20:00   71.7       84.8       96.7

When population index is large, ZHR is neary 100.
Then we do not calculate population index from observed
magnitude distribution yet. If population index is
around 3.5 or 3.5<, we can say the prediction was true.

with best wishes
Hiroshi Ogawa


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Hiroshi Ogawa (University of Tsukuba, JAPAN)
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