Results of the AKM Video Meteor Network - April 2000 ==================================================== What a difference compared to the previous month! Whereas there were almost no clear nights in March, we were able to observe almost every night apart from a gap near the middle of this month. Even when the observing conditions were often not perfect (full moon during the Lyrids, strong haze and cirrus clouds in other nights) were were able to record a respectful number of meteors thanks to the many observations. In the same month of the previous year we gathered only less than 20% of these data. 1. Observers ============ Code Name Place Camera FOV LM Nights Time Meteors -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KOSDE Koschny Noordwijkerh. ICC5 (0.75/50) 10 deg 7.5 mag 3 17.8 h 4 MOLSI Molau Aachen AVIS (2.0/35) 40 deg 5.0 mag 14 65.5 h 159 NITMI Nitschke Dresden VK1 (0.75/50) 20 deg 7.0 mag 4 16.5 h 47 RENJU Rendtel Marquardt CARMEN (1.8/28) 28 deg 5.0 mag 13 65.8 h 151 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overall 19 165.6 h 361 2. Observing Times (h) ====================== Apr 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KOSDE - - - - 7.7 4.3 - - - 5.8 - - - - - MOLSI - 5.8 - - 3.3 8.1 3.5 - 5.5 4.8 - - - - - NITMI - 5.1 - - - 3.7 - - - - 2.7 5.0 - - - RENJU - 2.4 2.2 7.8 5.2 6.9 4.2 - 7.0 4.4 4.9 3.8 - - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sum - 13.3 2.2 7.8 16.2 23.0 7.7 - 12.5 15.0 7.6 8.8 - - - Apr 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KOSDE - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - MOLSI - - - 4.4 2.8 4.0 6.6 1.0 4.8 7.1 - 3.8 - - - NITMI - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - RENJU 6.2 - - - 6.9 3.9 - - - - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sum 6.2 - - 4.4 9.7 7.9 6.6 1.0 4.8 7.1 - 3.8 - - - 3. Results (Meteors) ==================== Apr 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KOSDE - - - - 3 0 - - - 1 - - - - - MOLSI - 10 - - 16 16 17 - 16 4 - - - - - NITMI - 11 - - - 18 - - - - 4 14 - - - RENJU - 6 2 14 14 15 12 - 17 8 10 14 - - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sum - 27 2 14 33 49 29 - 33 13 14 28 - - - Apr 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KOSDE - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - MOLSI - - - 13 9 10 11 1 18 14 - 4 - - - NITMI - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - RENJU 10 - - - 11 18 - - - - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sum 10 - - 13 20 28 11 1 18 14 - 4 - - - Sirko Molau, 2000/05/16