(meteorobs) Observations Coweta, OK USA 14/15Dec2006

[Bill Godley]

DATE: Dec 14/15, 2006  BEGIN: 04:35 UT  END: 05:20 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 and talking clock
TEMP (Avg): 10 degrees C

OBSERVED SHOWERS: GEM, SPO

OBSERVING PERIODS:

PERIOD       F     LM   GEM  SPO

04:35-05:20  1.05  5.1   9    2

MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION:

    -6, -5, -4, -3, -2, -1,  0, +1, +2, +3, +4, +5
    ----------------------------------------------
GEM  0   0   0   0   0   0   1   3   2   2   1   0
SPO  0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   1   0

OBSERVING FIELD OBSTRUCTION:

5% entire duration of count

FOV generally centered at RA 5h 30m Dec +26

DEAD TIME: 0 minutes
BREAKS: none
TEFF = 0.75 hrs

MEAN LIMITING MAGNITUDE: 5.1

METEOR DATA:
                            SPEED
#     TIME(UT) SHOWER  MAG  (1-5)  COLOR    TRAIN(SEC)
------------------------------------------------------1
      04:44   GEM     +2    3
2       04:44   GEM     +1    4
3       04:46   GEM     +4    3
4       04:51   GEM     +2    3
5       04:52   SPO     +4    2
6       05:01   SPO     +3    3
7	05:02   GEM 	 0    4
8       05:03   GEM     +3    3
9       05:05   GEM     +1    3
10      05:13   GEM     +3    4
11      05:15   GEM     +1    3

NOTES:

High clouds entered the last 15 minutes or so and
thickened so that count had to be shut down.  That
will be all for the 2006 Geminids.


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