Recent NAMN Observations - December 2007


OBSERVERS

Salvador Aguirre, Mexico
Karl Antier, France
Pete Bias, USA
Derek Breit, USA
Sarthak Dasadia, India
George Gliba, USA
Bill Godley, USA
Lew Gramer, USA
Robin Gray, USA
Daniel Grun, Germany
Wayne Hally, USA
Roberto Haver, Italy
Robert Hays, Jr., USA
Alan Hilburn, USA
Javor Kac, Slovenia
Mike Linnolt, USA
Robert Lunsford, USA
Pierre Martin, Canada
Felix Martinez, USA
Paul Martsching, USA
Bruce McCurdy, Canada
Norman McLeod, USA
Koen Miskotte, The Netherlands & Portugal
David Oesper, USA
Pat O'Neill, Northern Ireland
Richard Taibi, USA
Harry Waldron, USA
William Watson, USA
Kim Youmans, USA
Jin Zhu, China

OBSERVING PERIODS (UT)

December 5:
Robin Gray (Teff=1.02, 3 HYD, 13 SPO)

December 7:
Salvador Aguirre (Teff=1.10, 1 GEM, 1 SPO)

December 8:
Bruce McCurdy (Teff=2.00, 3 ANT, 4 GEM, 3 HYD, 10 SPO)

December 11:
Bruce McCurdy (Teff=3.00, 4 ANT, 6 COM, 31 GEM, 6 HYD, 1 MON, 28 SPO)

December 12:
Salvador Aguirre (Teff=1.00, 3 GEM)

December 13:
Salvador Aguirre (Teff=6.00, 2 COM, 158 GEM, 15 HYD, 12 MON, 3 PUP, 29 SPO)
Pete Bias (Teff=0.75, 9 GEM, 2 SPO)
Robin Gray (Teff=2.16, 3 COM, 52 GEM, 2 HYD, 21 SPO)
Wayne Hally (Teff=1.20, 3 ANT, 1 DLM, 8 GEM, 3 SPO)
Robert Lunsford (Teff=2.00, 2 COM, 62 GEM, 2 HYD, 2 MON, 11 SPO)
Pierre Martin (Teff=2.11, 2 ANT, 2 COM, 61 GEM, 2 HYD, 3 MON, 19 SPO)
Felix Martinez (Teff=6.50, 1 DLM, 111 GEM, 4 HYD, 2 MON, 1 STA, 16 SPO)
Norman McLeod (Teff=6.40, 117 GEM, 6 HYD, 3 MON, 1 STA, 23 SPO)
William Watson (Teff=1.33, 3 ANT, 19 GEM, 5 SPO)

December 14:
Salvador Aguirre (Teff=2.20, 4 COM, 193 GEM, 6 HYD, 1 MON, 8 SPO)
Pete Bias (Teff=1.50, 21 GEM)
Sarthak Dasadia (Teff=3.00, 28 GEM, 12 SPO)
Lew Gramer (Teff=0.67, 18 GEM, 5 SPO)
Robin Gray (Teff=6.09, 30 COM, 6 DLM, 379 GEM, 15 HYD, 6 MON, 77 SPO)
Robert Hays (Teff=2.00, 101 GEM, 14 SPO)
Alan Hilburn (Teff=0.67, 4 GEM, 1 SPO)
Javor Kac (Teff=0.93, 1 ANT, 32 GEM, 5 SPO)
Mike Linnolt (Teff=0.50, 8 GEM, 2 SPO)
Robert Lunsford (Teff=8.00, 11 ANT, 12 COM, 6 DLM, 618 GEM, 7 HYD, 9 MON, 69 SPO)
Paul Martsching (Teff=4.00, 3 ANT, 1 COM, 95 GEM, 2 HYD, 8 SPO)
Koen Miskotte (Teff=7.85, 8 ANT, 3 COM, 7 DLM, 812 GEM, 3 HYD, 71 SPO)
David Oesper (Teff=2.00, 66 GEM, 1 SPO)
Pat O'Neill (Teff=0.25, 9 GEM)
Harry Waldron (Teff=1.00, 32 GEM, 3 SPO)

December 15:
Salvador Aguirre (Teff=7.30, 185 GEM, 3 HYD, 1 MON, 1 PUP, 24 SPO)
Derek Breit (Teff=3.00, 44 GEM, 5 SPO)
George Gliba (Teff=1.50, 3 ANT, 20 GEM, 1 HYD, 2 MON, 7 SPO)
Robin Gray (Teff=5.25, 6 COM, 1 DLM, 118 GEM, 9 HYD, 3 MON, 68 SPO)
Roberto Haver (Teff=2.41, 91 GEM, 1 MON, 22 SPO)
Javor Kac (Teff=4.01, 4 ANT, 1 COM, 171 GEM, 4 HYD, 1 MON, 29 SPO)
Robert Lunsford (Teff=5.25, 3 ANT, 5 COM, 3 DLM, 147 GEM, 4 HYD, 1 MON, 25 SPO)
Pierre Martin (Teff=3.94, 3 ANT, 2 COM, 135 GEM, 3 HYD, 2 MON, 24 SPO)
Bruce McCurdy (Teff=5.00, 17 ANT, 7 COM, 93 GEM, 3 HYD, 4 MON, 26 SPO)
Koen Miskotte (Teff=7.42, 4 ANT, 5 COM, 5 DLM, 469 GEM, 7 HYD, 69 SPO)
Richard Taibi (Teff=1.27, 17 GEM, 2 SPO)
Kim Youmans (Teff=3.00, 118 GEM, 25 SPO)

December 16:
Bill Godley (Teff=1.75, 5 GEM, 5 SPO)
Paul Martsching (Teff=2.00, 1 ANT, 6 GEM, 2 HYD, 9 SPO)

December 19:
Daniel Grun (Teff=0.82, 1 ANT, 1 URS, 2 SPO)

December 21:
Salvador Aguirre (Teff=2.20, 2 URS, 3 SPO)
Bruce McCurdy (Teff=1.20, 1 ALN, 2 URS, 2 SPO)

December 22:
Salvador Aguirre (Teff=4.50, 1 COM, 5 URS, 6 SPO)
Koen Miskotte (Teff=1.80, 2 ANT, 7 URS, 5 SPO)

December 23:
Salvador Aguirre (Teff=3.50, 1 ANT, 1 URS, 3 SPO)
Karl Antier (Teff=1.00, 2 URS, 1 SPO)
Bruce McCurdy (Teff=1.00, 1 COM, 5 URS, 3 SPO)
Jin Zhu (Teff=1.00, 3 URS, 4 SPO)

December 24:
George Gliba (Teff=2.00, 5 ANT, 6 COM, 2 NPX, 1 SPX, 6 URS, 10 SPO)

OBSERVED SHOWERS

ALN: Alpha Lyncids           1
ANT: Antihelion Source      82
COM: Coma Berenicids        99
DLM: Dec. Leo Minorids*     30
GEM: Geminids             4671
HYD: Sigma-Hydrids         112
MON: Monocerotids           54
NPX: Apex Source, Northern   2
PUP: Puppid-Velids           4
SPX: Apex Source, Southern   1
STA: Taurids, Southern       2
URS: Ursids                 34

SPO: Sporadics             853

* Possible Coma Berenicids

EFFECTIVE OBSERVING TIME (Teff) = 149.35 hours