Perseids 1997: an overview

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Summer 1997: Overview of visible streams and moonphase

Streams	ZHRmax	Date	UT	Sunlong	Moonphase
omicron Cygnids	2.5 +_ 0.8	19/7	7	116.0 +_ 0.5	1.00
Capricornids	2.2 +- 0.3	25/7	6	121.7 +- 0.9	0.60 -
delta Aquarids	11.4 +- 1.2	27/7	1	123.4 +- 1.0	0.27 -
iota Aquarids	1.0 +- 0.2	4/8	0	131.0 +- 1.0	0.01 +
Perseids	84.0 +- 5.0	12/8	20h30m	139.49 +- 0.04	0.45 +
kappa Cygnids	2.3 +- 0.4	19/8	15	146.0 +- 0.8	0.98 -
Aurigids	9.0 +- 3.0	31/8	13	157.5 +- 0.5	0.01 -

Table by Olga van Mill and Jeffrey Landlust

Weather overview:

This paragraph will be filled when the campaign continues. Please have some patience...

Active observers:

• Team Delphinus at Biddinghuizen consisting of: Marco Langbroek, Koen Miskotte as visual observers and Robert Haas and Casper ter Kuile dealing with advanced technology photography and the image intensified videosystem.
• Team Pisces Orientalis at Varsseveld consisting of: Hans Betlem dealing with photography and the image intensified video system and Annemarie Zoete, Guus Docters van Leeuwen, Olga van Mil, Jeffrey Landlust and others as visual observers.
• Jaap van 't Leven at Bosschenhoofd as visual observer and also dealing with the photography.
• Carl Johannink, Marc de Lignie and members of the Public Observatory at Lattrop as visual- and image intensified video-observer
• Klaas Jobse at Oostkapelle as photographer
• Jos Nijland at Benningbroek operating the all-sky camera.
• Peter Bus at Groningen as radio-observer
• Erwin van Ballegoy at the IAYC in the Erzgebirge, Germany

Observational results:

Please have some patience. Results will be published here....
Please go back to the Perseids '97 index page to consult the appropriate pages to learn of the observational results of all the active DMS-observers. Scan these pages frequently as they will be updated whenever new results become available!

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This page was last modified on August 1, 1997 by Casper ter Kuile and Hans Betlem