A wonderfull summernight, until fog came in around 02:00 UT. These last nights made up for the clouds and rain in the rest of July. Saw several meteors, some very bright. Some could have been Perseids, but others had their radiant near Aquila. 00- 6 A 00-07-31 01:35 LB S, 4 00- 6 B 00-07-31 01:59:25 LB 228.8 0.2 139 1.646 FF, 3->i Timings every 10 flashes (missed 1): 16.10 16.29 16.57 16.49 16.17 17.05 16.25 14.90(9) 16.71 16.35 16.59 16.31 16.57 16.45 sec. Was almost S, 3 from southwest to culmination. Afterwards it was possible to measure the flashes untill sat got lost in the haze/fog at the northern horizon 00- 39 C 00-07-31 01:07:34 LB 54.4 0.5 11 4.95 Irr, AA, 3->4 Timings: 5.17 4.77 5.00 5.40 5.68 4.93 4.41 4.02 5.79 4.60 4.67 sec 66- 56 B 00-07-30 23:30:08 LB 196.8 0.5 5 39.4 AA, 5->i Timings are irregular: 39.77 74.95 46.82 35.28 sec. 69- 9 A 00-07-31 00:07:42 LB 60.7 0.2 2 30.3 FF, 4->i Nice sharp flashes of ISIS 1 70-108 A 00-07-30 23:18:08 LB 18.2 0.5 2 9.1 AA, 4->7 Was almost S, 7 during entire pass, but showed three flashes 8.52 and 9.66 sec. apart. 74- 1 B 00-07-30 23:21 LB S, 7 81-119 B 00-07-30 22:53:03 LB 181.6 0.2 13 13.97 FF, 7->i Difficult to see in my 7x35 bino. Missed some flashes. Timings: 27.61(2) 14.24 13.92 13.82 56.02(4) 55.97(4) sec. 82- 3 B 00-07-30 22:16 LB S, 6 83- 42 B 00-07-31 00:28 LB S, 6 84- 56 B 00-07-31 01:43 LB almost S, 6 85- 79 B 00-07-30 22:12:43 LB 109.5 0.5 10 10.9 AA, 4->7 Timings: 10.11 11.28 9.33 12.08 10.67 11.39 11.26 11.51 10.96 10.86 sec. A little irragular behavior. 87- 27 B 00-07-31 00:16 LB S, 4 87- 57 B 00-07-31 01:15 LB var, 6->7 87- 74 G 00-07-30 22:43:09 LB 137.1 0.5 4 34.3 AA, 5->7 Timings: 36.66 32.62 34.00 33.79 sec 88- 23 B 00-07-30 23:15 LB S, 6 90- 4 B 00-07-30 21:35 LB slowly var, 7->i 90- 23 B 00-07-30 21:33 LB S, 6 90- 50 C 00-07-30 21:46 LB S, 6 90- 50 D 00-07-30 21:46 LB S, 5 90- 50 E 00-07-30 21:46 LB S, 7 The differance in brightness was evident in this NOSS trio pass 90-111 B 00-07-30 23:48:18 LB 71.9 0.5 1 71.9 AA, 5->i 91- 7 B 00-07-31 00:11 LB almost S, 6 91- 59 B 00-07-30 22:35 LB S, 7 91- 81 B 00-07-31 00:55 LB S, 6 92- 30 J 00-07-30 22:30:48 LB 129.1 0.2 18 7.17 FF, 5->i Timings: 7.31 6.89 14.38(2 flashes) 7.36 7.26 8.14 6.22 7.03 7.16 7.29 7.36 7.26 21.15 (3) 7.23 7.04 sec. 92- 38 A 00-07-31 01:23 LB almost S, 7 93- 20 B 00-07-30 23:13:12 LB 92.3 0.5 2 46.2 AA, 5->i 93- 36 B 00-07-30 23:43 LB S, 5 93- 59 B 00-07-30 23:57 LB S, 4 93- 61 A 00-07-30 21:30:21 LB 109.8 0.5 5 22.0 AA, 4->i, sm, 5 Timings: 21.82 11.82+11.03 11.36+8.97 17.64+5.25 21.96 sec The secondary max shifted during the pass 94- 23 B 00-07-30 21:23 LB S, 3 94- 23 B 00-07-30 23:08 LB almost S, 4 95- 12 B 00-07-30 21:14:44 LB 54.6 0.5 1 54.6 AA, 4->7 96- 29 C 00-07-31 00:59 LB S, 5 96- 29 D 00-07-31 00:59 LB S, 7 96- 29 E 00-07-31 00:59 LB S, 7 Object C followed the other two and was notably brighter 96- 71 B 00-07-31 00:47:08 LB 103.3 0.5 4 25.8 AA. 4->7 97- 10 B 00-07-31 00:13 LB almost S, 5 97- 17 B 00-07-30 22:05 LB S, 4 98- 43 G 00-07-30 20:54 LB S, 2 99- 26 C 00-07-30 23:00 LB almost S, 5 99- 37 E 00-07-30 21:26 LB S, 5 99- 45 B 00-07-31 00:02:39 LB 55.1 0.5 2 27.6 AA, 4->i Greetings and clear, dark skies Leo Barhorst Medemblik 684 obs in 2000 52.767 N 5.09 E 2 m ASL 10422 in PPAS ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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