Results of the AKM Video Meteor Network - February 2001
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February 2001 was one of the months you better forget soon. Not only meteor
activity was poor, but also the weather was far from good allowing only very 
few video observations. Who knows, maybe this was simply necessary after 
the quite successful observations in December and January.

Two things are noteworthy: First there seems to be a clear increase in
meteor activity around February 15. Currently we are analyzing whether the
large number of sporadic meteors belong to an unknown (?) minor shower.

Second our network finally got the long-awaited extension towards the southern
hemisphere. Rob McNaught now regularly operates his camera system with
MetRec. Thanks to the better weather and much better skies in the Australian
outback he was able to record more meteors than all Europeans together
despite his shorter summer nights. That's not yet all: Currently his 
colleague Steve Quirks installs a second automatic station, and soon they
will carry out double-station observations on a regular basis! The 
corresponding analysis software is not yet finished, but given this progress 
it will probably take no longer than two years to finally remove the white
spots from the meteor shower map of the southern sky.

What remains is the question, how long our network should be called the
"AKM video network". I decided to rename it to "IMO video network" as
soon as there are more active video stations abroad than in Germany. So
far the German cameras are clearly in the majority.

By the way, by now all observations until the end of 2000 are completely 
archived. All positional data (24203 meteors from 397 nights) can be 
downloaded in IMO's PosDat format for free from the homepage of IMO 
(http://www.imo.net/video/metrec). The full database with all images, log 
files, and meteor sequences can be obtained on 6 CD Roms from me at cost 
(10 Euro + shipping).


1. Observers
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Code     Name      Place          Camera          FOV    LM  Nights Time Meteors
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KNOAN  Knoefel  Duesseldorf   VIDEOMET (0.75/50) 20 dg  7 mag   3  24.6 h    26 
MCNRO  McNaught COOnabarabran SSO1 (1.2/85)      13 dg  9 mag  10  42.3 h   480  
MOLSI  Molau    Aachen        AVIS (2.0/35)      40 dg  5 mag   5  34.2 h   141
NITMI  Nitschke Dresden       VK1 (0.75/50)      20 dg  8 mag   2  10.0 h    25
RENJU  Rendtel  Marquardt     CARMEN (1.8/28)    28 dg  5 mag  10  69.1 h    69
STRJO  Strunk   Leopoldshoehe FAMOS (2.0/28)     45 dg  5 mag   5  31.6 h   101
YRJIL  Yrjola   Kuusankosi    NONAME (2.0/35)    35 dg  6 mag   3  19.7 h     8
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Overall                                                        16 231.5 h   850


2. Observing Times (h)
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Feb    01   02   03   04   05   06   07   08   09   10   11   12   13   14   15
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KNOAN   -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -  11.6   -    -    -    -    -    -
MCNRO  1.7  4.3   -   3.5   -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -   2.0  3.1   -
MOLSI   -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -   5.1   -    -   3.9 10.1 11.6
NITMI   -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -   5.0
RENJU   -   5.2   -    -    -    -    -    -    -   7.8   -    -   8.0   -  11.2
STRJO   -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -   3.0 11.4 11.4
YRJIL   -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -
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Sum    1.7  9.5   -   3.5   -    -    -    -  11.6 12.9   -    -  16.9 24.6 39.2

Feb    16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25   26   27   28
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KNOAN   -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -   4.4   -   8.6   -    -
MCNRO   -    -    -    -    -    -    -   6.4  7.5  4.2  5.7   -   3.9
MOLSI   -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -   3.5   -    -    -
NITMI   -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -   5.0   -
RENJU   -    -   6.6   -    -    -    -   1.9  4.6   -   9.8 10.0  4.0
STRJO   -    -    -    -    -    -    -   4.5  1.3   -    -    -    -
YRJIL   -    -    -    -    -    -   6.5   -   4.5  8.7   -    -    -
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Sum     -    -   6.6   -    -    -   6.5 12.8 22.3 16.4 24.1 15.0  7.9


3. Results (Meteors)
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Feb    01   02   03   04   05   06   07   08   09   10   11   12   13   14   15
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KNOAN   -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -   15    -    -    -    -    -    -
MCNRO  76   78    -   29    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -   19   10    -
MOLSI   -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -   12    -    -   10   37   67
NITMI   -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    7
RENJU   -    7    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    4    -    -    6    -   27
STRJO   -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    5   41   47
YRJIL   -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -
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Sum    76   85    -   29    -    -    -    -   15   16    -    -   40   88  148

Feb    16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25   26   27   28
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KNOAN   -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    2    -    9    -    -
MCNRO   -    -    -    -    -    -    -   53   86   63   38    -   28
MOLSI   -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -   15    -    -    -
NITMI   -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -   18    -
RENJU   -    -    4    -    -    -    -    3    3    -    8    5    2
STRJO   -    -    -    -    -    -    -    7    1    -    -    -    -
YRJIL   -    -    -    -    -    -    2    -    2    4    -    -    -
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Sum     -    -    4    -    -    -    2   63   94   82   55   23   30

Sirko Molau, 2001/03/09