Results of the AKM Video Meteor Network - March 2003 ==================================================== It seems that some observers had lots of things to do in preparation of the Easter holidays, so that they could not send in their observations in time. For this reason the list of observers is a little shorter than in other months. The missing observations will be appended later, though. It's clear, anyway, that the period of fine weather starting earlier this year continued in March. After the first half of the month was less favourable and allowed for only a few observations in central Europe, most observers got long observing series in the second half. Three quarters of the observers managed to observe in 14 or more nights, which is an impressive result. Ilkka Yrjola of Finland even recorded meteors in 21 nights! March statistics would be still better if one considers that most AKM observers lost two observing nights during the annual AKM meeting on March 21/22 when skies were perfectly clear. Among the AKM observers, Joerg Strunk collected most observing nights. That's not because the weather was better at his site, but because he is the first who completely automatted his camera. It now observes in every night (even during the AKM meeting :-) and uses every single cloud gap that opens the view to starry skies for a few hours only. In the future it will be difficult to collect more observing nights than him in the "conventional" way. 1. Observers ============ Code Name Place Camera FOV LM Nights Time Meteors -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EVAST Evans Moreton EMILY (1.8/28) 36 dg 5 mag 3 8.8 h 10 MOLSI Molau Seysdorf AVIS (2.0/35) 40 dg 5 mag 15 105.9 h 291 NITMI Nitschke Dresden VK1 (0.75/50) 20 dg 8 mag 3 15.1 h 29 QUIST Quirk Mudgee SSO-WAT1 (0.85/25) 13 dg 5 mag 18 147.7 h 267 RENJU Rendtel Marquardt AKM2 (0.85/25) 32 dg 6 mag 16 117.0 h 336 SPEUL Sperberg Salzwedel AKM1 (0.85/25) 32 dg 6 mag 14 85.1 h 239 STRJO Strunk Leopondshoehe MINCAM2 (0.8/6) 55 dg 3 mag 20 131.3 h 158 YRJIL Yrjola Kuusankoski NONAME (2.0/35) 38 dg 6 mag 21 146.5 h 143 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sum 30 757.4 h 1473 2. Observing Times (h) ====================== March 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EVAST - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2.8 MOLSI 5.9 - 2.5 7.9 8.5 - - - - 1.8 - - - - - NITMI - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 5.0 QUIST 8.3 9.0 - - 7.3 8.6 - 7.5 8.0 - - 8.2 - - - RENJU - - - 9.0 8.0 - - - - - - - 8.6 6.6 9.1 SPEUL - - - - - - - - - - - - 6.3 6.1 4.8 STRJO 8.0 2.9 - - 2.8 3.0 2.0 - 9.2 - - - 9.4 5.7 10.2 YRJIL - 5.6 - 10.6 9.0 - 1.5 7.3 - - - 8.7 9.2 - 9.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sum 22.2 17.5 2.5 27.5 35.6 11.6 3.5 14.8 17.2 1.8 - 16.9 33.5 18.4 41.4 March 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EVAST - - - - - 2.9 3.1 - - - - - - - - - MOLSI - - 9.3 9.1 9.0 - - 8.0 8.2 8.3 9.2 8.5 - 0.9 - 8.8 NITMI - - - - - - - - 5.1 - - - - - - 5.0 QUIST - 9.0 6.3 - 9.2 8.0 - 8.9 8.9 6.5 8.0 8.0 - - 8.7 9.3 RENJU 4.4 7.1 9.0 - 7.1 - - 8.9 3.0 4.8 8.0 - 6.6 - 8.3 8.5 SPEUL 2.2 2.9 4.3 - - - - 9.0 2.1 8.4 8.6 7.7 6.3 - 7.9 8.5 STRJO 5.6 9.9 - - - 9.7 9.7 9.6 1.5 - - 9.3 1.5 3.1 9.1 9.1 YRJIL - 5.0 8.6 - 8.5 6.0 4.8 4.0 8.8 8.5 8.7 - 8.1 3.0 3.0 8.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sum 12.2 33.9 37.5 9.1 33.8 26.6 17.6 48.4 37.6 36.5 42.5 33.5 22.5 7.0 37.0 57.3 3. Results (Meteors) ==================== March 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EVAST - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 MOLSI 7 - 13 4 29 - - - - 2 - - - - - NITMI - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 11 QUIST 17 23 - - 9 10 - 20 11 - - 8 - - - RENJU - - - 36 31 - - - - - - - 29 8 16 SPEUL - - - - - - - - - - - - 38 11 12 STRJO 7 3 - - 2 6 3 - 7 - - - 11 6 8 YRJIL - 9 - 14 12 - 2 6 - - - 5 7 - 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sum 31 35 13 54 83 16 5 26 18 2 - 13 85 25 52 March 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EVAST - - - - - 5 4 - - - - - - - - - MOLSI - - 20 12 19 - - 22 35 22 31 34 - 1 - 40 NITMI - - - - - - - - 7 - - - - - - 11 QUIST - 18 14 - 27 13 - 16 21 14 12 4 - - 18 12 RENJU 4 19 15 - 18 - - 32 6 13 17 - 19 - 32 41 SPEUL 2 3 8 - - - - 44 3 19 18 9 17 - 31 24 STRJO 5 13 - - - 17 20 10 4 - - 9 2 6 6 13 YRJIL - 7 3 - 12 5 2 4 7 9 5 - 13 3 1 13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sum 11 60 60 12 76 40 26 128 83 77 83 56 51 10 88 154 Sirko Molau, 2003/04/19