Carl Johannink

A summary of the activity of the CAMS BeNeLux network during the month of September 2022 is presented. This month we collected a total of 18236 multi-station meteors resulting in 5446 orbits.

 

 

Introduction

Although no major meteoroid streams are active in September, meteor activity in general this month is high due to higher sporadic activity. Nights are getting longer, so the effective observing time is increasing significantly in this month. That makes this month very interesting for observing.

 

September 2022 statistics

September 2022 alternated complete clear nights with more or less variable nights. Remarkable is the difference in temperature between the first half (very warm) and the second half of this month (cold). The number of complete clear nights wasn’t as high as in August, but on the other side, there was not one night completely clouded out. As a result, CAMS BeNeLux registered a total of 18236 multi-station meteors, resulting in 5446 orbits. See Figure 1 and Table 1.

Especially during September 3–4, 4–5, 20–21, 21–22, 28–29 and 29–30 a large number of orbits (400–500) could be collected. 666 meteors were captured by more than two stations, that is approximately 12% of the total number of orbits.

That number is significantly lower than last month, as a result of the more variable weather: some places did have clear conditions, other places were clouded out at the same time. The mean number of active cameras was ~83. At least 66 cameras were active every night, see Table 1. These numbers are also lower than last month. The main reasons were again technical problems, not only with WATECS, but also with some RMS-cameras during this month.

Private reasons caused less results for Alphen and Texel, but in October these stations will be active again.

 

 Conclusion

Results for September 2022 are nearly compatible with the results in September 2018. But the results for September 2020 and 2021 were much better.

Figure 1 – Comparing September 2022 to previous months of September in the CAMS BeNeLux history. The blue bars represent the number of orbits, the red bars the maximum number of cameras capturing in a single night, the green bar the average number of cameras capturing per night and the yellow bar the minimum number.

 

 

Table 1 – September 2022 compared to previous months of September.

Year

Nights

Orbits

Stations

Max. Cams

Min. Cams

Mean Cams

2012

18

209

5

5

–

3.4

2013

19

712

9

20

–

13.7

2014

27

1293

14

32

–

22.0

2015

29

2763

15

46

–

30.0

2016

30

3982

19

54

32

46.5

2017

29

4839

22

83

47

70.2

2018

28

5606

20

80

57

65.4

2019

29

4609

20

79

64

72.3

2020

26

6132

24

90

52

76.2

2021

30

7457

26

93

64

82.0

2022

30

5446

30

95

66

82.8

Total

295

43048

 

 

 

 

 

Acknowledgment

Many thanks to all operators of our cameras in the CAMS BeNeLux network for their efforts and everlasting delivery of data.

In September 2022 the CAMS BeNeLux network was operated by the following volunteers:

Hans Betlem (Woold, Netherlands, CAMS 3071, 3072 and 3073), Jean-Marie Biets (Wilderen, Belgium, CAMS 379, 380, 381 and 382), Ludger Boergerding (Holdorf, Germany, RMS 3801), Günther Boerjan (Assenede, Belgium, RMS 3823), Martin Breukers (Hengelo, Netherlands, CAMS 320, 321, 322, 323, 324, 325, 326 and 327, RMS 319, 328 and 329), Seppe Canonaco (Genk, RMS 3818 and 3819), Pierre de Ponthiere (Lesve, Belgium, RMS 3816 and 3826), Bart Dessoy (Zoersel, Belgium, CAMS 397, 398, 804, 805, 806, 3888 and RMS 3827), Tammo Jan Dijkema (Dwingeloo, Netherlands, RMS  3199), Isabelle Ansseau, Jean-Paul Dumoulin, Dominique Guiot and Christian Walin (Grapfontaine, Belgium, CAMS 814 and 815, RMS 3814 and 3817), Uwe Glässner (Langenfeld, Germany, RMS 3800), Luc Gobin (Mechelen, Belgium, CAMS 3890, 3891, 3892 and 3893), Tioga Gulon (Nancy, France, CAMS 3900 and 3901), Robert Haas (Alphen aan de Rijn, Netherlands, CAMS 3160, 3161, 3162, 3163, 3164, 3165, 3166 and 3167), Robert Haas (Texel, Netherlands, CAMS 810, 811, 812 and 813), Kees Habraken (Kattendijke, Netherlands, RMS 3780 and 3781), Klaas Jobse (Oostkapelle, Netherlands, CAMS 3030, 3031, 3032, 3033, 3034, 3035, 3036 and 3037), Carl Johannink (Gronau, Germany, CAMS 3100, 3101, 3102, 3103, 3104 and 3105), Reinhard Kühn (Flatzby, Germany, RMS 3802), Hervé Lamy (Dourbes, Belgium, CAMS 394 and 395, RMS 3825), Hervé Lamy (Humain, Belgium, RMS 3821), Hervé Lamy (Ukkel, Belgium, CAMS 393), Koen Miskotte (Ermelo, Netherlands, CAMS 3051, 3052, 3053 and 3054), Pierre-Yves Péchart (Hagnicourt, France, RMS 3902 and 3903), Tim Polfliet (Gent, Belgium, CAMS 396, RMS 3820), Steve Rau (Oostende, Belgium, RMS 3822), Steve Rau (Zillebeke, Belgium, CAMS 3850 and 3852, RMS 3851 and 3853), Paul and Adriana Roggemans (Mechelen, Belgium, RMS 3830 and 3831, CAMS 3832, 3833, 3834, 3835, 3836 and 3837), Jim Rowe (Eastbourne, Great Britain, RMS 3829), Hans Schremmer (Niederkruechten, Germany, CAMS 803), Erwin van Ballegoij (Heesh, Netherlands CAMS 3148 and 3149).