(meteorobs) Geminids

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• Subject: (meteorobs) Geminids
• From: Paul Martsching <pmartsching@mchsi.com>
• Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 10:19:23 -0600
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I got clouded/fogged out both nights 13/14 Dec & 14/15 Dec.  I did see 
some Geminids the night of 12/13 Dec.

12/13 Dec 2003

700-830 pm local time; 0100-0230 UT: aver.lim.mag.~5.8 (lots of snow & 
Moon rise ~805 pm) facing East.

GEM's  3, Sporadics 3, (and 45 Airplanes/Jets!!)

Later:

1215-245 am local time; 0615-0845 UT: aver.lim.mag.5.0 1215-145; 4.7 
145-245 (Moonlight on snow) facing NNW.

1215-115 (1 hr)   GEM's  12,  Sporadics  1
115-215  (1 hr)   GEM's   9,  Sporadics  2  Chi Orionid  1
215-245  (0.5 hr) GEM's   6,  Sporadics  2

Quit because a lot of brightly Moonlit cirrus moving in.

Geminid Magnitudes:

-3   1   very short duration train
-2   1
-1   2
  0   7
+1   7
+2   8
+3   3
+4   1

Geminids very clumpy: 1215-100 4 GEM's; 100-115 8 GEM's; but 130-200 No 
GEM's!; 200-215 6 GEM's; 215-245 6 GEM's.

212 am mag.-8 pale greenish-yellow Chi Orionid fragmenting fireball in 
NW sky - very bright and spectacular - even in Moonlit sky!

Paul Martsching
Ames, IA USA


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