(meteorobs) Re: Perseids - Aug.12/13, WVa
George Gliba
gliba at milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov
Mon Aug 14 11:33:29 EDT 2006
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 " "
[Took break 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
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