14 December 2004

14 December 2004

Observing
Location		The Internet
Atmospheric
Conditions
InstrumentsNASA SSB Radio Feed
Observing
Party		Charlie Ridgway

TargetGeminid Meteors
Constellation
CategoryMeteors
Time0207
CommentsI just discovered that the long steady wailing tones are airplanes or other interference. That makes sense since some of the ones I have been hearing tonight have lasted a very long time. I am going to continue to count them as meteors to maintain some consistency within my observations even though it is pushing the ZHR higher than it should be. And since it is getting close to midnight in NM now there will probably be fewer and fewer planes to hear.
Tume (EST)ZHR
0207-0217154
0247-025575
0300-031024
0330-0340132
0400-041018

posted by Charlie at 04:15

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