(meteorobs) Late Ursids 12-24-06, WVa
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meteors at eclipse.net
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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