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Date: 01 Sep 2007 07:05:28
From: Robert Welch
Subject: Alpha Aurigids report - SF Bay Area
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I went out to the hills south of Livermore CA this morning to see if the
predicted Alpha Aurigid meteor shower would take place. I got there at
2:50AM PDT. Beautiful warm summer night, clear, and waning gibbous moon
nearly overhead. Between 2:50 and 4, I saw two (suspected) Alpha Aurigids.
Activity picked up after that. Based on my notes (and it is tougher to write
under bright moonlight than I thought it would be) the peak happened before
4:30, as I saw 20 more by 4:30AM and ten more by 5AM. After that, only one
before I left at 5:30 (starting to brighten in the east).
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Robert Welch
Alameda, CA
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Date: 02 Sep 2007 02:02:05
From: jerry warner
Subject: Re: Alpha Aurigids report - SF Bay Area
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Moonlight hampered here but I counted 5-6, short trails, not very
bright, relatively fast, but nice colors each. Nothing to shout about
and frankly a bit of a disappointment given the media hype. Didnt
try to photograph any due to the bright moonlight.... oh well...
still a beautiful summer night with neighbor dog Nick and cyotes
howling and coon fighting in the woods behind us. Nice night to
sit a ponder .... where are they!
jerry
Robert Welch wrote:
> I went out to the hills south of Livermore CA this morning to see if the
> predicted Alpha Aurigid meteor shower would take place. I got there at
> 2:50AM PDT. Beautiful warm summer night, clear, and waning gibbous moon
> nearly overhead. Between 2:50 and 4, I saw two (suspected) Alpha Aurigids.
> Activity picked up after that. Based on my notes (and it is tougher to write
> under bright moonlight than I thought it would be) the peak happened before
> 4:30, as I saw 20 more by 4:30AM and ten more by 5AM. After that, only one
> before I left at 5:30 (starting to brighten in the east).
> --
> Robert Welch
> Alameda, CA
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Date: 02 Sep 2007 04:15:33
From: VicXnews
Subject: Re: Alpha Aurigids report - SF Bay Area
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"Robert Welch" <rbwelch128@alamedanet.net > wrote in
news:46d97577$0$14039$baae4c71@news.mindlink.net:
> I went out to the hills south of Livermore CA this morning to see if the
> predicted Alpha Aurigid meteor shower would take place. I got there at
> 2:50AM PDT. Beautiful warm summer night, clear, and waning gibbous moon
> nearly overhead. Between 2:50 and 4, I saw two (suspected) Alpha
> Aurigids. Activity picked up after that. Based on my notes (and it is
> tougher to write under bright moonlight than I thought it would be) the
> peak happened before 4:30, as I saw 20 more by 4:30AM and ten more by
> 5AM. After that, only one before I left at 5:30 (starting to brighten in
> the east).
I saw 8 between 4:10 and 5:00am. Nothing before that...not even a sporatic.
All were bright...close to Mars in bightness. All had 5deg trails...one with
a trail about 20deg long. All were orange in color though lighter/more pale
than Mars.
OBTW this was under the very bright Las Vegas sky.
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