(meteorobs) Observations 28/29Jul2006 Coweta, OK USA

[Bill Godley]

DATE: Jul 28/29, 2006  BEGIN: 05:40 UT  END: 07:50 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): 22 degrees C

OBSERVED SHOWERS: ANT, CAP, PER, SDA, SPO

OBSERVING PERIODS:

PERIOD       F     LM   ANT  CAP  PER  SDA  SPO

05:40-07:50  1.05  5.0   1    2    2    3    6

MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION:

    -6, -5, -4, -3, -2, -1,  0, +1, +2, +3, +4, +5
    ----------------------------------------------
ANT  0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   0   0   0
CAP  0   0   0   0   0   1   0   0   0   1   0   0
PER  0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   1   0   0   0
SDA  0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   2   0
SPO  0   0   0   0   0   0   0   2   1   3   0   0

OBSERVING FIELD OBSTRUCTION:

5% entire duration of count

FOV generally centered at RA 21h 00m Dec +40

DEAD TIME: 10 minutes
BREAKS: none 
TEFF = 2.00 hrs

MEAN LIMITING MAGNITUDE: 5.0

METEOR DATA:
                            SPEED
#     TIME(UT) SHOWER  MAG  (1-5)  COLOR    TRAIN(SEC)
------------------------------------------------------
1	05:42	SPO	+3    3             
2	05:50	PER	+2    4
3       06:00   SPO     +3    5
4       06:17   SDA     +4    4
5       06:31   CAP     -1    1    yellow
6       06:41   PER     +1    4
7       06:48   SPO     +1    3
8       06:55   SPO     +2    4
9       06:58   SPO     +1    3
10      07:05   SDA     +4    4
11      07:13   SDA     +3    4
12      07:39   SPO     +3    3
13      07:40   ANT     +1    3
14      07:41   CAP     +3    2   

NOTES:  I don't normally see colors in many meteors
but my first CAP was quite a display.  It was slow and
appeared to break up as it moved slowly toward the
western horizon.




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