THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 597        1992 Jan 9 18.44UT
Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise,  Basingstoke,
Hants, RG22 4PP,England. Telephone/FAX(0256)471074 Int:+44256471074
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QUADRANTIDS 1992
Dr.Mark Kidger, Tenerife, has faxed the following report today:
"Luis Chinarro reports that whilst he and Luis Manade were taking
photographs with the Mons Telescope in Teide Observatory on the
morning of 1992 January 4, they saw a burst of meteoric activity
which, from the described radiant point, was almost certainly the
Quadrantids. Luis reports that, whilst checking the sky outside the
dome, he saw 9 meteors in 2-3 minutes, at around 03.00UT. From the
Canary Islands the radiant is still quite low at this time of the
morning, so the implied rate of activity is very high.
This report is confirmed by Luis Lopez, Carlos Vazquez and Pablo
Rodriquez of the Agrupacion Astronomica de Tenerife. Observing
from a nearby site they registered 77 meteors in 80 minutes with
16 meteors in 6 minutes from 02.55-03.01UT. They estimate that the
naked eye limit was about 6.5."

E-INDEX (cf E588)
We welcome Taichi Kato of Japan to our group.
He can be contacted via JANET using:
CBS%NSFNET-RELAY::JP.AC.KYOTO-U.KUSASTRO::T.KATO
Ian Townend tells us that he is no longer available on Telecom
Gold but has, instead, secured a COMPUSERVE mailbox. He can be
contacted via JANET using:
CBS%NSFNET-RELAY::COM.COMPUSERVE::70374.641

UV PERSEI (cf E592)
Further selected visual estimates of the outburst which occurred
in 1991 Dec:
1991 Dec 13.753UT, [13.2 Mike Gainsford, Burbage, UK
         23.777,    13.0 Mike Gainsford, Burbage, UK
         23.875,    12.0 M.Moeller, Germany
         24.73,     12.8 Margareta Westlund, Sweden
         24.767,    11.8 Patrick Schmeer, Germany
         24.770,    12.8 Mike Gainsford, Burbage, UK
         24.798,    11.8 Patrick Schmeer, Germany
         25.69,     12.8 Margareta Westlund, Sweden
         25.86,     12.2 Michel Verdenet, France
         25.910,    12.0 Patrick Schmeer, Germany
         26.781,    13.1 Mike Gainsford, Burbage, UK
         26.798,    13.1 Guy Hurst, Basingstoke, UK
         27.849,    12.6 Margareta Westlund, Sweden
         27.927,    13.2 K.G.Andersson, Sweden
         27.961,    12.6 Patrick Schmeer, Germany
         28.851,    12.6 Patrick Schmeer, Germany
         29.698,    13.0 K.G.Andersson, Sweden
         29.743,    12.8 Margareta Westlund, Sweden
         30.698,    12.8 K.G.Andersson, Sweden
         30.712,    13.0 Margareta Westlund, Sweden

Taichi Kato, Japan e-mails V band photometry:
        UT         band     V-a     V-b
1991 Dec 28.405      B     -0.37   +1.91
         28.406      I     +2.72   +3.11
         28.408      V     +0.62   +2.47
Star a as defined in E592; b is just east of variable, GSC V=9.9.
Each observation represents an average of two images and values are
assessed to be accurate to 0.01 magnitude.

Guy M Hurst