Results of the IMO Video Meteor Network - July 2004
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Those who spent their summer vacation in the first half of July were lucky
when they went to a southern location. The weather in central Europe was all
but not like Summer, which is represented by the low number of observations.
It was rainy and cold, and we would have missed more than a single observing
night if the observers were not distributed over such a large area.
The picture changed radically in the middle of the month: The days turned
sunny and hot with 30 deg Centigrade in the shadow and numerous clear nights
which reminded somehow to the exceptional Summer of 2003. Only a few heat
thunderstorms and the resulting clouds blocked the view to the sky sometimes.
In the end we collected 400 hours of effective observing time and, thanks to
the increasing meteor activity, for the first time in this year more than a
thousands meteors.
As for the observers: Detlef Koschny resumed meteor observation after a
longer breaks to due professional commitments, whereas the data of Stane
Slavec and Stefan Ueberschaer are still missing. Anyway, everybody could "warm
up" for August, the high season for meteor observers thanks to the Perseids.
More on that in the next monthly summary.
1. Observers
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Code Name Place Camera FOV LM Nights Time Meteors
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EVAST Evans Moreton RF1 (1.2/12) 20 dg 4 mag 6 26.3 h 80
KACJA Kac Kostanjevec METKA (0.8/8) 42 dg 2 mag 17 92.7 h 120
KOSDE Koschny Noordwijkerh. ICC3 (0.85/25) 25 dg 6 mag 5 21.8 h 204
MOLSI Molau Seysdorf AKM1 (0.85/25) 32 dg 6 mag 15 54.2 h 217
MINCAM1 (1.4/12) 35 dg 4 mag 22 89.1 h 156
STRJO Strunk Leopoldshoehe MINCAM2 (0.8/8) 42 dg 4 mag 23 61.4 h 210
MINCAM3 (0.8/6) 55 dg 3 mag 15 55.0 h 198
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Sum 30 400.5 h 1185
2. Observing Times (h)
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July 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15
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EVAST - 3.9 - - 4.1 - - - 4.2 - - 4.2 - - -
KACJA - - 5.6 5.3 5.7 - - 6.0 5.9 - 6.1 2.7 - - -
KOSDE - - - - - 3.0 - - - - - - - - -
MOLSI - - 1.1 3.0 - 0.9 - - 1.5 - - - - - -
- 2.0 1.5 4.2 - 2.3 - - 5.1 3.2 - - - - 0.4
STRJO - - 2.2 - 2.9 2.9 2.0 0.6 0.5 4.1 - - 2.8 0.5 -
- - - - 2.8 3.9 - - - 3.9 - - 1.4 - -
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Sum - 5.9 10.4 12.5 15.5 13.0 2.0 6.6 17.2 11.2 6.1 6.9 4.2 0.5 0.4
July 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
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EVAST - 4.7 - - - - - 5.2 - - - - - - - -
KACJA 5.7 5.8 6.0 4.5 6.1 6.1 6.0 6.1 - - - - - - 4.0 5.1
KOSDE - - - - - - - - - - 4.6 4.1 5.3 4.8 - -
MOLSI 5.6 1.0 1.9 5.5 - 5.3 4.9 - - 1.9 - 5.1 5.9 5.4 5.2 -
6.4 1.0 2.5 6.6 6.6 5.6 6.1 - 1.8 2.2 1.9 7.0 7.0 7.1 7.1 1.5
STRJO 1.8 2.0 0.5 3.2 0.5 0.5 4.9 - 2.2 - 5.2 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 0.7
2.7 2.2 - 3.8 - - 4.7 - 4.6 - 4.7 4.3 5.3 5.2 4.4 1.1
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Sum 22.2 16.7 10.9 23.6 13.2 17.5 26.6 11.3 8.6 4.1 16.4 25.7 28.8 27.9 26.2 8.4
3. Results (Meteors)
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July 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15
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EVAST - 8 - - 17 - - - - 16 - 18 - - -
KACJA - - 13 8 6 - - 4 14 - 5 3 - - -
KOSDE - - - - - 22 - - - - - - - - -
MOLSI - - 2 12 - 2 - - 5 - - - - - -
- 4 3 8 - 3 - - 4 4 - - - - 3
STRJO - - 3 - 6 6 6 2 1 14 - - 7 1 -
- - - - 10 7 - - - 9 - - 5 - -
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Sum - 12 21 28 39 40 6 6 24 43 5 21 12 1 3
July 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
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EVAST - 3 - - - - - 18 - - - - - - - -
KACJA 5 13 9 5 5 3 3 9 - - - - - - 8 7
KOSDE - - - - - - - - - - 46 46 54 36 - -
MOLSI 27 1 5 17 - 28 22 - - 2 - 12 39 27 16 -
11 1 3 7 8 7 13 - 1 2 3 11 19 23 15 3
STRJO 5 5 3 8 1 1 11 - 5 - 21 22 18 35 26 3
9 4 - 7 - - 10 - 8 - 33 21 25 34 12 4
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Sum 57 27 20 44 14 39 59 27 14 4 103 112 155 155 77 17
Sirko Molau, 2004/08/23