Results of the AKM Video Meteor Network - June 2000 =================================================== June is an interesting month for video observers, even though the nights are short and there are no bigger showers in sight yet. The reason: Observer groups in different countries suspect a number of minor showers which "did not made it" into IMO's working list yet. Thanks to the good weather especially in the first part of the month we were able to secure many meteor recordings, which might help to unveil the true nature of one or the other shower. Detailed investigations are currently under way. Unfortunately, there was largely poor weather in Germany during the June Bootids, which surprised the observers in 1998 with an outburst of the strength of a regular Perseid maximum. Nevertheless, two video observations were obtained under sub-optimal conditions in Aachen. Whereas the shower was detectable in the first night (June 26/27) with rates below the sporadic activity, no shower members were recorded in the following night. Our JBO summary for 2000: active yes, outburst no. 1. Observers ============ Code Name Place Camera FOV LM Nights Time Meteors -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOLSI Molau Aachen AVIS (2.0/35) 40 deg 5.0 mag 13 47.5 h 180 NITMI Nitschke Dresden VK1 (0.75/50) 20 deg 7.0 mag 3 11.5 h 26 RENJU Rendtel Marquardt CARMEN (1.8/28) 28 deg 5.0 mag 12 34.5 h 80 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overall 19 93.5 h 286 2. Observing Times (h) ====================== Jun 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOLSI 4.3 4.0 - - - - - - - 4.1 - 4.4 1.6 - 2.3 NITMI - 3.6 3.8 4.1 - - - - - - - - - - - RENJU - 2.4 - 3.4 - - 3.1 3.2 3.3 - - 2.9 - - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sum 4.3 10.0 3.8 7.5 - - 3.1 3.2 3.3 4.1 - 7.3 1.6 - 2.3 Jun 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOLSI 2.8 3.2 3.4 4.5 4.5 - - - - - 4.0 4.4 - - - NITMI - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - RENJU 2.9 3.3 2.9 2.5 2.9 - - - 1.7 - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sum 5.7 6.5 6.3 7.0 7.4 - - - 1.7 - 4.0 4.4 - - - 3. Results (Meteors) ==================== Jun 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOLSI 14 15 - - - - - - - 26 - 8 4 - 6 NITMI - 11 4 11 - - - - - - - - - - - RENJU - 5 - 6 - - 9 10 6 - - 11 - - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sum 14 31 4 17 - - 9 10 6 26 - 19 4 - 6 Jun 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOLSI 6 16 10 18 21 - - - - - 19 17 - - - NITMI - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - RENJU 7 3 4 9 8 - - - 2 - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sum 13 19 14 27 29 - - - 2 - 19 17 - - - Sirko Molau, 2000/07/10