(meteorobs) Obs: 12/13 December 2006

pmartsching at mchsi.com pmartsching at mchsi.com
Wed Dec 13 11:48:23 EST 2006


13 December 2006 04:45-08:15 UT (CST 12/13 Dec 2006 10:45pm-2:15am)

Paul Martsching
McFarland Park Observatory 4 miles NE of Ames, Story County, Iowa
Long: 93 deg 34 min W   Lat: 42 deg 05 min N   Elevation: 1,040 feet
Method: Visual; paper, pencil and talking clock

04:45-05:45; 32 degrees F; wind W 5 mph; more or less clear - lingering "haze"
from overcast that was moving out; average limiting magnitude 5.5; facing East
50 degrees; Total teff 1.0 hour
Time   mag.   type   comment
04:57  +1     GEM
05:03  +4     GEM
05:06  -2     GEM
05:06   0     GEM    greenish
05:07  +2     ANT
05:11  +3     GEM
05:13  +4     Spor
05:17  +4     Spor
05:30  +1     GEM
05:31  +3     MON
05:33  +1     Spor
05:38  -1     GEM
Antihelion: +2
Geminid: -2, -1, 0, +1(2), +3, +4
Monocerotid: +3
Sporadic: +1, +4(2)
Total meteors: twelve

05:15-06:15; 31 deg F; wind W 5 mph; "clear" - some haze; average limiting
magnitude 5.6; facing East 50 degrees; Total teff 1.0 hour
Time   mag.   type   comment
05:48  +4     GEM
06:00  +1     GEM    yellow
06:00  +3     Spor
06:01  +1     GEM
06:04  -1     GEM    blue-white
06:09  +2     GEM
06:20  +4     Spor
06:21  +1     Spor
06:25  +1     GEM    orange
06:30  +1     GEM
06:23   0     GEM    orange
06:37   0     GEM    yellow
06:37  +1     Spor
06:39  +2     GEM
06:39  +3     GEM
06:43  -1     COM    1 second train
06:44  -3     GEM    orange
Antihelion: none
Coma Berenicid: -1
Geminid: -3, -1, 0(2), +1(4), +2(2), +3, +4
Monocerotid: none
Sigma Hydrid: none
Sporadic: +1(2), +3, +4
Total meteors: seventeen 

Break 06:45-07:00; Moon rise ~06:45

07:00-08:15; 30 degrees F; wind West 2 mph; "clear" - some fog forming toward
end of period; average limiting magnitude 5.4; facing NNW 45 degrees; Total teff
1.25 hour
Time   mag.   type   comment
07:02  +2     GEM
07:03  +2     GEM
07:06  -2     GEM    yellow
07:09  +3     GEM
07:11   0     GEM    orange
07:11  +3     GEM
07:14  +3     GEM
07:17  +4     GEM
07:18  +3     GEM
07:26  +4     GEM
07:27  +1     GEM    orange
07:28  +1     GEM    yellow
07:32  -3     GEM    yellow
07:34  -1     GEM    orange
07:36  +1     GEM
07:38  +2     GEM
07:40  +3     COM
07:41  +1     GEM    yellow
07:46  +3     GEM
07:50  +2     GEM
07:50  +4     Spor
07:51   0     GEM
07:52  +2     GEM
07:57  +1     GEM
07:58  +3     GEM
08:01  -3     GEM    yellow
08:01  +3     Spor
08:06  +3     GEM
08:07  +1     GEM
08:08  +3     GEM
08:14  +3     Spor
Anthihelion: none
Coma Berenicid: +3
Geminid: -3(2), -2, -1, 0(2), +1(6), +2(5), +3(8), +4(2)
Monocerodtid: none
Sigma Hydrid: none
Sporadic: +3(2), +1
Total meteors: thirty-one

Quit at 08:15 because Moon light brightening the increasing fog.  








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