After a day with sun and clouds, it cleared in the evening. About 1 hour into the obs session clouds moved in, just when 05- 17 C was passing. A short time later it cleared again and it stayed beautifull clear all night. As I'm on holliday I could observe the whole night. Saw several nice Perseids and a brilliant orange Mars. Did observe quite a lot Cosmosrockets for Bram Dorreman's program to obtain their current PPAS status. Several were looked for but not seen. The URL explaning the numbers : http://www.satobs.org/tumble/flashpm.html#PPASformat 02- 09 A 05-08-01 21:13 LB S, 4 02- 24 A 05-08-01 21:14:36 LB 77.9 0.5 2 38.9 AA, 3->5 Timings: 36.13 41.74 sec. 02- 62 C 05-08-02 02:12 LB S, 5 04- 12 C 05-08-01 21:53 LB almost S, 4 04- 21 B 05-08-02 00:01:15 LB 324.0 0.2 32 10.12 FF, 3->i Timings: [5.30 4.64] 9.78 [5.65 4.79] 10.31 [5.22 4.93] 9.46 [5.88 5.46] 9.79 [5.06 4.98] 9.32 [5.72 5.30] 9.92 [5.36 4.92] 9.40 [6.04 4.67] 10.22 [5.19 5.16] 10.45 10.33 10.39 19.80 20.40 10.48 8.39 11.94 9.79 9.88 10.05 10.18 9.41 sec. 04- 21 B 05-08-02 01:44:39 LB 125.0 0.2 12 10.42 AA, 3->7 Timings: 11.22 10.44 9.89 9.95 9.40 10.18 10.89 9.84 10.28 10.66 9.89 12.35 sec. 04- 44 B 05-08-01 20:58 LB S, 3 05- 17 C 05-08-01 21:44:01 LB 58.3 0.2 13 4.49 FF, 4->i, N?, in clouds Timings: 4.07 4.37 5.62 3.90 3.11 3.43 7.05 5.31 5.60 4.61 4.05 2.48 4.71 sec. 67- 45 B 05-08-02 00:18 LB S, 5 70- 25CD 05-08-01 22:04 LB slowly var, 4->i 71-114 B 05-08-02 00:50 LB S, 6 75- 74 B 05-08-02 00:48 LB S, 5.5 76- 11 B 05-08-01 21:39 LB S, 5 76- 11 B 05-08-01 23:23 LB almost S, 7 76- 19 A 05-08-02 00:12:47 LB 124.6 0.2 20 6.23 FF, 4->i, sm, 6 Timings: 5.55 5.65 5.68 5.65 5.68 5.60 5.69 5.74 [3.08 2.63] 5.55 5.59 5.72 5.68 5.63 5.76 5.68 5.58 5.70 5.68 5.10 6.40 5.56 sec. 76- 51 B 05-08-02 01:11 LB S, 6 77- 13 B 05-08-01 23:43 LB S, 6 77- 59 B 05-08-01 23:47 LB lp, var, 4->7 79- 30 B 05-08-01 22:51 LB lp, var, 5->i 79- 89 B 05-08-02 01:33 LB S, 5.5 80- 98 B 05-08-01 21:25:32 LB 284.6 0.2 16 17.79 FF, 6->i Timings: 17.78 17.86 53.33 35.71 17.74 17.59 71.24 35.89 17.44 sec. Several maxima were not seen. 80- 98 B 05-08-02 01:57:10 LB 159.7 0.2 9 17.74 FF, 6->i Timings: 17.39 18.16 17.40 18.21 17.72 35.33 18.02 17.45 sec. 82- 69 B 05-08-02 02:04 LB S, 6 83- 79 B 05-08-01 22:56 LB S, 5 84- 19 B 05-08-02 00:45 LB almost S, 6 85- 11 B 05-08-01 23:08 LB S, 5.5 85- 79 B 05-08-01 22:45:55 LB 119.2 0.5 6 19.9 AA, 4->i Timings: 17.69 20.77 18.83 22.07 19.10 20.72 sec. 85- 79 B 05-08-02 00:29:42 LB 81.1 0.5 4 20.3 AA, 4->7 Timings: 19.74 19.11 20.36 21.89 sec. 85- 97 B 05-08-01 21:35 LB S, 3 86- 37 B 05-08-02 00:23 LB S, 5 87- 60 A 05-08-01 21:30 LB S, 5 87-106 B 05-08-02 00:52 LB S, 5 88- 22 A 05-08-01 22:40 LB S, 6 88-102 B 05-08-01 22:19 LB lp, var, 4->6 89- 42 B 05-08-01 23:20 LB S, 7 90- 81 K 05-08-01 22:14:24 LB 72.7 0.5 5 14.5 AA, 4->i, sm, 5 Timings: 11.97 16.58 14.73 15.14 14.25 sec. 90-111 B 05-08-02 01:31 LB almost S, 5 91- 41 B 05-08-01 23:28 LB S, 6 92- 76 B 05-08-02 01:17 LB S, 5 92- 93 B 05-08-02 00:54 LB S, 4 93- 50 A 05-08-01 20:48:09 LB 71.1 0.2 10 7.11 fF, 3(2)->i Timings: 6.85 [5.17 1.71] 6.49 7.51 6.78 7.40 7.02 7.41 6.21 8.51 sec. Probably combined period of 14.2 sec. 94- 83 B 05-08-02 00:36 LB almost S, 4 95- 32 B 05-08-02 01:03 LB S, 8 95- 58 B 05-08-01 22:10 LB S, 6 96- 51 B 05-08-02 01:00 LB S, 5 96- 52 C 05-08-02 01:51 LB almost S, 7 97- 28 C 05-08-02 02:06 LB S, 7 97- 30 A 05-08-02 02:28:22 LB 46.9 0.2 6 7.81 Ff, 3(4)->i Timings: [2.73 3.20 1.82] 7.91 [5.94 1.82] 7.77 [6.02 1.82] 7.81 sec. Several sm not timed. The bright flash was shortly after the second sm. 97- 47 B 05-08-01 23:52 LB S, 8 97- 52 C 05-08-01 22:37:15 LB 185.6 0.5 5 37.1 AA, 5->7 Timings: 17.69 20.77 18.83 22.07 19.10 20.72 sec. 98- 72 C 05-08-01 23:33:12 LB 116.9 0.5 4 29.2 AA, 4->i Timings: 29.22 28.12 30.13 29.39 sec. 2005: 456 obs PPAS: 14047 obs The following Cosmosrockets were looked for but not seen. 80- 22 B at 22:07 79- 46 B at 23:16 83- 01 B at 23:26 86- 86 B at 23:37 89- 50 B at 23:50 75- 34 B at 00:20 90- 17 B at 00:26 92- 12 B at 00:39 90- 36 B at 00:57 93- 01 B at 01:19 78- 53 B at 01:24 96- 04 B at 01:37 91- 19 B at 01:48 85-110 B at 02:09 Also not seen: 75- 52 M at 23:12 97- 12 B at 01:13 76- 98 B at 02:14 Greetings and clear, dark skies Leo Barhorst, Medemblik NL Cospar 4252 52.76350 N 5.09114 E 2 m ASL http://www.home.versatel.nl/leobarhorst/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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