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