(meteorobs) Re: Perseids - Aug.12/13, WVa

[George Gliba]

                   Screech Owl Hill Observatory, Mountain Meadows
                               West Virginia 385710N 0785544W
                                            August 12/13, 2006

   We had some good transparency dispite the moon being a spoiler. Before
moonrise we could see to 6.5 magnitude. During that time we observed some
with a 90mm spotting scope, and saw the asteroid Hebe, Neptune and other
deep sky objects. During meteor observing we had the moon behind us. In
four hours I saw 79 Perseids. The best meteors were a -3 CAP, the only one
seen, and three -2 Perseids, one of which became bifurcated during flight.
I observed meteors for four hours, but took an hour break after three to get
refreshed. In all 120 meteors were seen.

  Time (UT)  LM  %Obst. PER  CAP  KCG  SDA  ANT  SPO  Total   FOV   Comments
03:32-04:32  6.0      0%      15      1        0         0         3   
     5      24   16.8+35 facing NW
04:32-05:32  6.0      0%      14      0        1         0         
0        2      17   19.7+45   "    "
05:32-06:32  5.9      0%      27      0        1         1         
4        5      38   20.7+43   "    "
                                    [Break taken from 06:32 to 07:32 UT]
07:32-08:32  5.7      0%      23      0        0         2         
6      10       41   02.0+73 some haze

Magnitude Distributions (03:32-07:32 UT, break from 06:32 to 07:32 UT)

        -3   -2   -1    0   1    2    3    4    5   Total  Ave.
PER  0    3    3    6  14  16  23  10    4    79    2.1
CAP  1    0    0    0    0    0    0   0     0     1   -3.0
KCG  0   0    0    1    0    0    0   1     0     2    2.0
SDA  0    0    0    0    0    0    0   3     0     3    4.0
ANT  0    0    0    0    1    3    4   4    1    13    3.3
SPO   0    0    0    1    3    1    3   8    6    22    3.4

Clear Skies.
GWG