(meteorobs) Observations Nov 12/13 Coweta, OK USA - Leonid Fireball!

[Bill Godley]

Unfavorable conditions the past several nights.  The
cold front and associated cloudiness finally moved
through last evening and I decided to try the only
hour of darkness between moonset at 4:30 am local time
and morning twilight.  I was rewarded by a fast,
yellow-blue, -6 fireball that streaked toward the
eastern horizon from Leo.

Results:

DATE: Nov 12/13, 2005  BEGIN: 10:30 UT  END: 11:32 UT
OBSERVER: Bill Godley
LOCATION: Long 95:57:44 W; Lat 35:56:52 N
CITY/STATE: Coweta, Oklahoma  ELEV: 650 ft
METHOD: Visual w/ tape recorder

OBSERVED SHOWERS: LEO, NTA, STA, ZPU

OBSERVING PERIODS:

PERIOD       F     LM   LEO  NTA  STA  ZPU  SPO

10:30-11:32  1.05  4.9   3    1    0    0    7

MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION:

    -6  -5  -4  -3  -2  -1  0  +1  +2  +3  +4  +5
    ---------------------------------------------
LEO  1                   1              1
NTA                                 1              
SPO                             2   1   2   2

OBSERVING FIELD OBSTRUCTION:

5% entire duration of count

FOV generally centered at RA 07h 45m Dec +15

DEAD TIME: 2 minutes
BREAKS: 
TEFF = 1.00 hrs

MEAN LIMITING MAGNITUDE: 4.9

METEOR DATA:
                            SPEED
#     TIME(UT) SHOWER  MAG  (1-5)  COLOR  TRAIN(SEC)
---------------------------------------------------
1	10:32	NTA	+2    2    
2	10:42	LEO	+3    4
3	10:52	SPO	+4    2
4	10:54	SPO	+1    3
5	11:01	SPO     +4    4    
6	11:07	SPO	+1    4
7	11:12	LEO	-6    4    blu/yel  7-sec
8	11:17	LEO	-1    4             <1-sec
9       11:18   SPO     +3    3
10      11:20   SPO     +2    3
11      11:28   SPO     +3    2  



NOTES:

Meteor #7 was a fireball that shot to the east
emanating from near the tail of Leo and streaking off
to the east.  Noticed yellow and blue color.  Meteor
#8 just a few minutes later followed almost the same
trend.



	
		
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