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

[George Gliba]

Note: Error in Magnitude Distribution times corrected.
>               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 (03:32-08:32 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