Results of the AKM Video Meteor Network - May 2000 ================================================== May has demonstrated that our video network still needs to be improved. Even though the weather was almost perfect in the first half of the month with nature being several weeks ahead of it's time thanks to many sunshine hours, we obtained only little meteor data in these days. The reason: All active video observers were on holiday! We were able to operate a camera in two nights during the eta-Aquarids meteor camp in Jordan. The largest shower of the southern hemisphere was responsible for the increased meteor numbers on May 4 and 5. In the remaining nights the activity stayed very low with only 5 meteors recorded on average in two hours observing time. Still, in May 2000 we obtained significantly more data than in the year before. 1. Observers ============ Code Name Place Camera FOV LM Nights Time Meteors -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOLSI Molau Aachen AVIS (2.0/35) 40 deg 5.0 mag 14 48.9 h 224 NITMI Nitschke Dresden VK1 (0.75/50) 20 deg 7.0 mag 3 14.4 h 45 RENJU Rendtel Marquardt CARMEN (1.8/28) 28 deg 5.0 mag 11 38.1 h 69 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overall 17 101.4 h 338 2. Observing Times (h) ====================== May 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOLSI - - - 2.2 5.3 - - - 0.6 4.0 - 3.4 5.6 4.0 5.3 NITMI - - - - - - - - - - - - - 5.1 5.0 RENJU - - - - - - - - - - - 3.3 4.5 4.6 4.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sum - - - 2.2 5.3 - - - 0.6 4.0 - 6.7 10.1 13.7 14.7 May 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOLSI 1.2 - - - 2.3 - - - - 3.4 - 4.8 3.7 3.1 - - NITMI - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4.3 RENJU 3.1 - - - - - - 3.5 - 3.6 - 3.6 2.6 - 1.3 3.6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sum 4.3 - - - 2.3 - - 3.5 - 7.0 - 8.4 6.3 3.1 1.3 7.9 3. Results (Meteors) ==================== May 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOLSI - - - 62 51 - - - 2 7 - 12 13 10 5 NITMI - - - - - - - - - - - - - 19 10 RENJU - - - - - - - - - - - 8 9 14 8 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sum - - - 62 51 - - - 2 7 - 20 22 43 23 May 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOLSI 4 - - - 7 - - - - 5 - 15 12 19 - - NITMI - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 16 RENJU 3 - - - - - - 4 - 6 - 5 6 - 1 5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sum 7 - - - 7 - - 4 - 11 - 20 18 19 1 21 Sirko Molau, 2000/06/02