Results of the AKM Video Meteor Network - March 2003
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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
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Code    Name       Place           Camera          FOV    LM Nights Time Meteors
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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
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Sum                                                             30 757.4 h  1473


2. Observing Times (h)
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March  01   02   03   04   05   06   07   08   09   10   11   12   13   14   15
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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March  01   02   03   04   05   06   07   08   09   10   11   12   13   14   15
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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
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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
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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
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Sum    11   60   60   12   76   40   26  128   83   77   83   56   51   10   88  154

Sirko Molau, 2003/04/19