Recent NAMN Observations - December 2005


OBSERVERS

David Dickinson, USA
Eric Flescher, USA
Bill Godley, USA
Lew Gramer, USA
Robin Gray, USA
Richard Kramer, USA
Mike Linnolt, USA
David Love, USA
Qiang Ma, China
Pierre Martin, Canada
Paul Martsching, USA
Manoj Pai, India
Aldo Paredes, Mexico
Wesley Stone, USA
David Swann, USA
Richard Taibi, USA
Michel Vandeputte, Belgium
William Watson, USA & Pacific Ocean near Hawaii
Kim Youmans, USA

OBSERVING PERIODS (UT)

December 1:
Michel Vandeputte (Teff=2.50, 2 GEM, 1 HYD, 2 XOR, 43 SPO)

December 3:
Kim Youmans (Teff=2.00, 2 HYD, 3 MON, 8 XOR, 32 SPO)

December 5:
Robin Gray (Teff=1.01, 2 HYD, 1 PUP, 4 XOR, 19 SPO)

December 7:
Paul Martsching (Teff=2.00, 1 HYD, 2 MON, 1 XOR, 5 SPO)

December 8:
Pierre Martin (Teff=1.96, 4 GEM, 4 HYD, 2 MON, 1 PUP, 3 XOR, 29 SPO)
William Watson (Teff=1.25, 2 GEM, 1 NTA, 1 PUP, 6 SPO)

December 10:
David Dickinson (Teff=1.00, 9 GEM, 1 SPO)
Robin Gray (Teff=1.03, 4 GEM, 4 XOR, 19 SPO)
David Swann (Teff=1.00, 1 GEM, 4 SPO)
Michel Vandeputte (Teff=4.00, 19 GEM, 1 HYD, 3 MON, 82 SPO)
William Watson (Teff=1.20, 6 GEM, 1 PUP, 1 XOR, 3 SPO)

December 11:
David Love (Teff=3.50, 4 GEM, 2 MON, 2 SPO)
Qiang Ma (Teff=1.50, 11 GEM, 4 HYD, 2 MON, 15 SPO)
Wesley Stone (Teff=1.90, 28 GEM, 44 SPO)
David Swann (Teff=1.00, 1 GEM, 2 SPO)
Michel Vandeputte (Teff=3.50, 32 GEM, 1 HYD, 2 XOR, 62 SPO)
Kim Youmans (Teff=2.00, 22 GEM, 4 HYD, 1 MON, 4 XOR, 22 SPO)

December 13:
Eric Flescher (Teff=1.00, 6 GEM, 1 SPO)
Lew Gramer (Teff=2.77, 52 GEM, 2 HYD, 2 MON, 1 PUP, 2 XOR, 13 SPO)
Pierre Martin (Teff=1.35, 1 COM, 51 GEM, 2 HYD, 2 MON, 1 XOR, 8 SPO)
Paul Martsching (Teff=2.00, 8 GEM, 1 HYD, 3 SPO)
Manoj Pai (Teff=1.75, 6 GEM, 9 SPO)
Wesley Stone (Teff=0.83, 29 GEM, 8 SPO)
William Watson (Teff=0.60, 7 GEM, 1 HYD, 3 SPO)
Kim Youmans (Teff=1.00, 27 GEM, 2 XOR, 9 SPO)

December 14:
Lew Gramer (Teff=3.21, 115 GEM, 7 HYD, 3 MON, 1 PUP, 4 XOR, 29 SPO)
Robin Gray (Teff=2.03, 1 COM, 27 GEM, 2 HYD, 2 MON, 24 SPO)
Richard Kramer (Teff=0.34, 9 GEM, 3 SPO)
Mike Linnolt (Teff=0.75, 5 GEM, 1 XOR, 1 SPO)
Pierre Martin (Teff=6.96, 3 COM, 203 GEM, 2 HYD, 5 MON, 3 XOR, 17 SPO)
Aldo Paredes (Teff=1.42, 8 GEM, 4 SPO)
Wesley Stone (Teff=2.00, 30 GEM, 3 SPO)
David Swann (Teff=1.00, 10 GEM)
Richard Taibi (Teff=1.33, 12 GEM)
William Watson (Teff=1.93, 38 GEM, 5 SPO)

December 15:
William Watson (Teff=0.93, 1 GEM, 1 SPO)

December 21:
Paul Martsching (Teff=2.00, 1 URS, 1 XOR, 1 SPO)

December 22:
Bill Godley (Teff=1.25, 4 URS, 2 SPO)
Paul Martsching (Teff=6.00, 2 COM, 8 URS, 1 XOR, 13 SPO)
Richard Taibi (Teff=1.50, 1 URS, 2 SPO)

December 23:
David Love (Teff=2.50, 4 GEM, 2 XOR, 5 SPO)
Kim Youmans (Teff=2.00, 9 SPO)

OBSERVED SHOWERS

COM: Coma Berenicids       7
GEM: Geminids            793
HYD: Sigma-Hydrids        37
MON: Monocerotids         29
NTA: Taurids, Northern     1
PUP: Puppid-Velids         6
URS: Ursids               14
XOR: Chi Orionids         46

SPO: Sporadics           563

EFFECTIVE OBSERVING TIME (Teff) = 80.84 hours