Results of the AKM Video Meteor Network - December 2002
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In December, central Europe suffered from the usual poor winter weather with
no snow but mostly clouded skies. At least in the week of the Geminid maximum
skies cleared for a few nights, resulting in acceptabable observing times and
meteor counts in the last month of 2002. The second half of December was almost
a complete miss, which was not due to lack of motivation of the observers over
Christmas.
Interesting to note in December is the fact, that the Mintron camera of
Joerg Strunk is almost as effective as the image intensified cameras at times
of major showers with low population indices.
Detailed summaries and statistics for 2002 will follow later.
1. Observers
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Code Name Place Camera FOV LM Nights Time Meteors
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BENOR Benitez S. Maspalomas TIMES4 (1.4/50) 20 dg 4 mag 4 29.0 h 41
MOLSI Molau Muenchen AVIS (2.0/35) 40 dg 5 mag 7 63.1 h 441
NITMI Nitschke Dresden VK1 (0.75/50) 20 dg 8 mag 2 10.1 h 119
QUIST Quirk Mudgee SSO-WAT1 (0.85/25) 13 dg 5 mag 13 105.2 h 244
RENJU Rendtel Marquardt AKM2 (0.85/25) 32 dg 6 mag 1 7.7 h 57
CARMEN (1.8/28) 28 dg 5 mag 6 65.5 h 456
SPEUL Sperberg Salzwedel AKM1 (0.85/25) 32 dg 6 mag 5 33.7 h 344
STRJO Strunk Leopoldshoehe MINCAM2 (0.8/6) 55 dg 3 mag 10 77.7 h 352
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Sum 24 392.0 h 2054
2. Observing Times (h)
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Dec 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15
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EVAST - - - - - - - - - - - - 6.7 0.9 -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
KACJA - - - - - - - 6.1 1.1 - - 9.9 - 2.4 -
KOSDE - - - - - 10.1 11.6 7.7 9.3 1.5 - - - - -
MOLSI 1.9 - - - - 3.7 9.3 10.9 9.9 11.2 3.0 8.9 - 2.1 0.8
0.8 - - - - 2.2 11.9 12.9 13.2 11.7 2.6 9.8 - 1.4 0.4
RENJU - - - - - 3.9 4.8 2.9 12.6 12.3 - 1.5 - 0.3 5.7
SLAST - 6.0 - - - - 12.5 12.5 3.5 - - 6.5 - 9.5 8.4
STRJO 6.6 9.0 - - - 10.1 13.4 13.4 13.4 6.3 1.0 1.5 0.7 5.6 -
- - - - - - - 13.0 13.5 6.8 - - - - -
UEBST - - - - - - 10.3 12.7 13.9 5.2 - - - - -
YRJIL - - - - 6.8 2.0 0.5 14.2 7.0 - - 8.4 1.3 - -
- - - - - - - - - - - 2.0 - - -
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Sum 9.3 15.0 - - 6.8 32.0 74.3106.3 97.4 55.0 6.6 48.5 8.7 22.2 15.3
Dec 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
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EVAST - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - 10.3 - - - - - - 4.8 - - -
KACJA - 6.1 5.2 6.1 8.7 - - - 5.0 7.8 9.7 - - - - -
KOSDE - 8.4 10.8 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
MOLSI - - - - 3.2 3.2 3.2 13.3 7.5 5.3 13.3 7.7 2.2 - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
RENJU 1.7 - 13.4 - - - 9.5 12.4 - - 1.1 5.1 - 1.9 - -
SLAST 8.5 9.4 7.5 11.1 3.3 - - 12.5 12.5 12.0 12.1 - - - - -
STRJO - 10.4 13.6 - - 5.6 10.9 0.5 - - 3.3 3.5 2.9 3.1 1.6 6.5
- - - - - - - - - - - - - 4.1 4.6 4.1
UEBST - 10.5 14.5 - 0.2 0.2 - 3.3 - - 1.1 1.1 1.7 5.4 0.3 1.0
YRJIL 6.0 - - 0.8 11.0 - 10.1 - - - - - 4.8 - 11.5 3.8
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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Sum 16.2 44.8 65.0 18.0 26.4 19.3 33.7 42.0 25.0 25.1 40.6 17.4 16.4 14.5 18.0 15.4
3. Results (Meteors)
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Dec 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15
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EVAST - - - - - - - - - - - - 72 12 -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
KACJA - - - - - - - 4 2 - - 36 - 16 -
KOSDE - - - - - 43 61 34 40 3 - - - - -
MOLSI 6 - - - - 17 58 37 55 57 2 46 - 19 12
2 - - - - 14 83 62 87 71 6 26 - 16 5
RENJU - - - - - 48 11 16 51 51 - 5 - 5 30
SLAST - 4 - - - - 23 20 3 - - 2 - 28 20
STRJO 17 38 - - - 36 42 43 47 15 6 5 5 26 -
- - - - - - - 55 56 12 - - - - -
UEBST - - - - - - 13 16 21 17 - - - - -
YRJIL - - - - 42 6 4 54 21 - - 102 8 - -
- - - - - - - - - - - 11 - - -
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Sum 25 42 - - 42 164 295 341 383 226 14 233 85 122 67
Dec 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
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EVAST - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - 21 - - - - - - 3 - - -
KACJA - 6 12 10 7 - - - 5 6 7 - - - - -
KOSDE - 63 32 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
MOLSI - - - - 3 10 34 89 19 16 36 55 2 - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
RENJU 3 - 76 - - - 68 38 - - 2 13 - 6 - -
SLAST 44 43 19 45 2 - - 41 33 35 27 - - - - -
STRJO - 38 38 - - 12 22 2 - - 8 8 7 4 6 17
- - - - - - - - - - - - - 5 12 15
UEBST - 18 24 - 2 1 - 5 - - 2 1 4 9 1 2
YRJIL 17 - - 3 14 - 34 - - - - - 6 - 33 15
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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Sum 64 168 201 58 28 44 158 175 57 57 82 77 22 24 52 49
Sirko Molau, 2003/01/22