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RE: (meteorobs) Backyard Geminids Galore
Hi Kim and all list members,
Well, North Florida was a complete and total wipeout ALL weekend long!
It finally cleared up for me here well after midnight this morning. I
awoke at 0530 to find perfect skies, of course. Only saw THREE Geminids all
weekend long, through a small "sucker hole" on Saturday night. So much for
our two-station plans. What a disaster! Oh well, now it's on to the Ursids
this coming weekend. Fortunately, as the song says: "There's got to be a
morning after"...
Regards to all, Paul in the Ancient City
>From: "Kim Youmans" <ksyo@bellsouthdot net>
>Reply-To: meteorobs@atmob.org
>To: <meteorobs@meteorobs.org>
>Subject: (meteorobs) Backyard Geminids Galore
>Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 07:42:23 -0500
>
> Last night I observed the post maximum Geminids from my backyard under
>a
>more limited LM and with more visual obstruction (trees) yet I still had
>fine results in the two hours before the moon became a major nuisance. A
>double station observation with Paul Jones was scrapped when overcast skies
>remained during the planned hours (7 -9 PM local) but the last of the
>clouds
>did finally blow out by about 10:00 PM.
> From about 10:10 PM-12:20 AM local time I observed 58 meteors, the vast
>majority of them Gems including a -5 that was well out of my FOV but still
>managed to catch my eye as it went behind trees in the south. Rates were
>about 25-28 Gems per hour with LM around 5.4-5.7 and 15% obstruction.
>There
>were plenty of brighter Geminids to be seen. Don't know that I've ever had
>such good rates from my backyard! The moon was already rising when I
>decided I might need sleep if I planned on working today...I'll post the
>full report as soon as time allows.
>
>Kim Youmans
>
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