Results of the AKM Video Meteor Network - March 2000 ==================================================== March was record breaking - in the negative sense. The weather hadn't been that poor for a very long time. After weeks of rainy weather the situation improved briefly around March 21. However, even then the air was very humid and the sky often foggy or garnished with cirrus clouds. The full moon did the rest of the jobs, so that we recorded on average only two meteors per hours in the absence of any major shower. Let's hope for better weather in April. 1. Observers ============ Code Name Place Camera FOV LM Nights Time Meteors -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KOSDE Koschny Noordwijkerh. ICC5 (0.75/50) 10 deg 7.5 mag 2 5.8 h 14 MOLSI Molau Aachen AVIS (2.0/35) 40 deg 5.0 mag 3 24.3 h 46 NITMI Nitschke Dresden VK1 (0.75/50) 20 deg 7.0 mag 3 5.9 h 11 RENJU Rendtel Marquardt CARMEN (1.8/28) 28 deg 5.0 mag 4 16.4 h 34 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overall 9 52.4 h 105 2. Observing Times (h) ====================== Mar 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KOSDE - - - - - - - - - - - 3.8 - - - MOLSI - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NITMI - 1.1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - RENJU - - - - - - - - 3.3 - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sum - 1.1 - - - - - - 3.3 - - 3.8 - - - Mar 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KOSDE - - - - - - - - 2.0 - - - - - - - MOLSI - - - - 8.6 8.6 7.1 - - - - - - - - - NITMI - - - 1.8 - - 3.0 - - - - - - - - - RENJU - - - - - 4.0 3.9 5.2 - - - - - - - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sum - - - 1.8 8.6 12.6 14.0 5.2 2.0 - - - - - - - 3. Results (Meteors) ==================== Mar 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KOSDE - - - - - - - - - - - 13 - - - MOLSI - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NITMI - 3 - - - - - - - - - - - - - RENJU - - - - - - - - 17 - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sum - 3 - - - - - - 17 - - 13 - - - Mar 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KOSDE - - - - - - - - 1 - - - - - - - MOLSI - - - - 14 25 7 - - - - - - - - - NITMI - - - 6 - - 6 - - - - - - - - - RENJU - - - - - 9 2 6 - - - - - - - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sum - - - 6 14 34 15 6 1 - - - - - - - Sirko Molau, 2000/04/06