Thomas: Thanks for sharing your photo. Interesting! With my filtering idea I was hoping to record a much larger field of view which has proven not to work so...
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Thomas Ashcraft
ashcraft@...
May 30, 2010 3:08 pm
Hi Ed, Chris, all, Thank you for your input. What I am thinking about is the possibility of daytime telescopic observing without any special filtering and...
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Chris Peterson
clp@...
May 29, 2010 4:19 pm
You can certainly record meteors in the daytime sky. Typical daytime telescopic stellar magnitude limits are on the order of around mag +1, so meteors are...
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Ed Majden
epmajden@...
May 29, 2010 3:54 pm
Thomas: I speculated on trying to record daytime meteors using a very narrow band Na 1 filter thinking it would make the background sky dark except for the Na...
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Thomas Ashcraft
ashcraft@...
May 29, 2010 3:20 pm
The other day I was tracking Jupiter in the daylight sky with a 100 mm refractor, Celestron CG5-gt mount and a DMK 41 video camera. I had Jupiter in sight on...
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Robert Lunsford
lunro.imo.usa@...
May 28, 2010 7:40 pm
June is another slow month for meteor activity. There are no major showers active in June and only the Antihelion source can be counted on for continuous...
Predictions of June Bootids 2010, 2011 and 2012 are available at: http://feraj.narod.ru/Radiants/Predictions/predicteng.html In 2010 there are some low chances...
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Robert Lunsford
lunro.imo.usa@...
May 22, 2010 5:28 am
May is a fairly slow month for meteor activity. The Eta Aquariids are very active the first two weeks of the month then fade as the month progresses. The only...
Screech Owl Hill Observatory, Mountain Meadows Mathias, West Virginia 385710N 0785544W May 10/11 & 11/12, 2010 We were lucky to have two consecutive nights to...
Dear List, Anyone with any capture of these events? Best Regards, Dirk Ross...Tokyo Milton, Florida blue green meteorite nw florida may 14, 2010 Fort...
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Robert Lunsford
lunro.imo.usa@...
May 14, 2010 7:40 pm
May is a fairly slow month for meteor activity. The Eta Aquariids are very active the first two weeks of the month then fade as the month progresses. The only...
Dear all, The Visual Meteor Database (VMDB) collects meteor observations since 1988, and the files actually go back to 1982. It's the largest collection of...
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sirko@...
May 11, 2010 11:09 am
The March 2010 report from the IMO Video Meteor Network is available at http://www.imonet.org/reports/201003.pdf. Best wishes, Sirko Molau -- ...
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javor.kac@...
May 11, 2010 11:08 am
WGN - Journal of the International Meteor Organization Volume 38, Number 2, April 2010, pages 49 − 80 The new issue of this Journal is now in the mail;...
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Hiroshi Ogawa
h-ogawa@...
May 11, 2010 11:06 am
Hello all, Mr. Hirofumi SUGIMOTO who is radio meteor observer in Japan reported the unusal eta-Aqarid activity around 20:00-22:00 on 5th May (UT). Houry...
Radio Meteor Observation Bulletin No. 201 of April 2010 (88 K) is available now as http://www.rmob.org/rmobtext/rmob1004.txt More information and the visual...
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GLDSKTR@...
May 8, 2010 3:19 pm
Yahoo News...Always on top of things! ;) In a message dated 5/8/2010 12:05:50 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, brodwcjj@... writes: It's on the internet!...
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Mikhail Maslov
ast3@...
May 8, 2010 4:48 am
Very slow sporadic fireball with fragmentation. Date: 2010.05.02, Time: 16:33 UT. Duration: 5.48 sec, brightness: -3.0 mag, wake. ...
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Mikhail Maslov
ast3@...
May 8, 2010 4:36 am
Videometeors from Lyrids 2010 maximum (22 meteors during Teff=2.23h): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxLHLdwnQZ8 Best regards, Mikhail Maslov ...
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Chris Peterson
clp@...
May 8, 2010 4:19 am
The Spaceweather.com story says that Eta Aquarii is 156 light years away and 44 times more luminous than the Sun. Not the Eta Aquarids. Obviously the writer of...
