(meteorobs) Late Ursids 12-24-06, WVa

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Tue Dec 26 15:24:28 EST 2006




What is the source reference of the EGR, as well as the radiant position?
I'll keep my eye out during upcoming plotting sessions.

>
>
>                Screech Owl Hill Observatory, Mountain Meadows
>                       West Virginia 385710N 0785544W
>                              December 23/24, 2006
>
>  We went up to our cabin at Mountain Meadows, West Virginia to try to
> see some
> late Ursids (URS) and Coma Berenicids (COM) meteors. The transparency
> was good
> to excellent and I was able to get in three hours of meteor observing
> before
> clouds came in. There were a few URS, and there was good activity from
> the COM
> minor meteor shower. The last hour, there were a few Epsilon Virginids
> (EVR)
> seen. There were no meteors brighter than 1st magnitude. The few URS
> seen were
> on the faint side, but distinct.
>
>
>   Time (UT)  LM  %Obst. ANT   COM   EVR   URS   SPO  Total   FOV
> Comments
> 05:00-06:00  6.5   0%    3     0     0     2     8    13   10.0+60   clear
> 06:00-07:00  6.5   0%    4     5     0     2    11    22   11.0+60   clear
> 07:00-08:00  6.4  20%    0     4     3     1    10    18   various  20%
> cloudy
>
> Magnitude Distributions (05:00-08:00 UT)
>
>      -1   0   1   2   3   4   5  total  Ave.
> ANT  0   0   2   1   1   3   0    7    2.7
> COM  0   0   1   1   2   3   2    9    3.4
> EVR  0   0   1   0   0   1   1    3    3.0
> URS  0   0   0   0   1   3   1    5    4.0
> SPO  0   0   1   4   9   7   8   29    3.6
>
> Clear Skies.
> GWG
>
>
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