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(meteorobs) Late Observing Report from 20/21 November 2003 (Central Virginia)
Have had a chance today to go through some of my Observing Sheets and
realize that I did not report the short Observing Period that I had on
the night of 20/21 November of this year (OOPs). Short and quick
synopsis report is as follows:
Date - 20/21 November 2003
Location - 14 miles NNE of Lynchburg, Virginia (rural outskirts of
Madison Heights-Monroe)
Observing Period - 0830 to 0900 UT (Official Session)
(Meteors Seen) - 10 Meteors Total
Casually spotted a 2nd Magnitude Taurid at 0205 UT (2105 EST)
(0830-0900 UT)
Leo 1.0 Yellow 1 second Train
Leo 4.0
Leo 0.0 Yellow 1.5 second Train
Spor 4.0
Leo 3.0
Spor 2.0 Yellow
Leo 5.0
Spor 6.0
*Limiting Magnitude of 6.2 and 29 minutes of
effective observing time*
Casually spotted a 6th Magnitude Sporadic Meteor, just after 0900 UT.
Nothing further to report on this Observing Session.
In Astronomical Affinity - Felix
A. Martinez
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 10:33:10 -0500 "Kim Youmans" <ksyo@bellsouthdot net>
writes:
> As stated earlier, this was a one-hour early evening (7:43-851 PM)
> period
> from a planned two-hour session. A "miraculous" clear sky developed
> and
> allowed me to get over an hour's teff in just before moonrise last
> night. I
> had seen a pre-radiant-rise earthgrazing fireball at 23:51 UT while
> it was
> still terribly cloudy but nothing else until skies cleared around
> 00:35 UT.
>
> I've also reformatted my report in plain text, non-HTML....hope it
> comes out
> OK....
>
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*
>
> OBSERVER: Kim S. Youmans (YOUKI) DATE: 12-12/13-2003
> BEGIN: 00:43UT END 01:51UT LOCATION: Treutlen Co, Ga.
> 82. 24' 25" W; 32. 24' 45" N
> METHOD: Tape Elev. 240 ft
> Facing SSW, sky .03 %0bscured
> No Breaks
>
> Period 1 00:43-01:51UT SPO(1) GEM(7)
> Dead time = 0 min, Teff = 1.12
>
> Avg. LM = +6.06 (IMO 6,18)
>
> FOV Mid period 1hr +15
> Sol Long. 261.002
>
> Showers Observed
> SPO (1)
> GEM (7) 07:28 (112) +33
> MON (0) 06:52 (103) +08
>
> Magnitude Distribution
>
> GEM(7) -2(1) +1(2) +3(1) +4(1) +5(2)
> SPO(1) +2(1)
> Meteor Data
>
> P1
> Time Shower Mag. Speed (0-5) Comments
> 00:54 GEM Mag (5 ) Speed (3) in Aries
> 01:07 GEM Mag (5 ) Speed (3) Eastern Aquarius
> 01:10 GEM Mag (1 ) Speed (4) Train; near Beta Cetus
> 01:14 GEM Mag (4 ) Speed (3) long path, between
> Vulpelcula &
> Delphinus
> 01:22 GEM Mag (3 ) Speed (3) Western Aries
> 01:44 SPO Mag (2 ) Speed (2) very brief, Cygnus
> 01:44 GEM Mag (1 ) Speed (3) Western Cygnus
> 01:44 GEM Mag (-2) Speed (3) Aqua; through NW Pegasus
>
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