(meteorobs) Obs: 18/19 November 2006

[pmartsching at mchsi.com]

19 November 2006 05:00 - 11:30 UT (CST 18/19 Nov 2006 11:00pm-5:30am)

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

05:00-06:00; 30 degrees F; wind North 5 mph; some more or less thin cloud moving
thru from time to time; average limiting magnitude 5.6; facing East 50 degrees;
Total teff: 1.0 hour
Time   mag.  type   comment
05:23  +1    NTA
05:31  +4    LEO
05:37  -1    NTA
05:39  +3    Spor
05:42  +3    Spor
05:50  +3    Spor
Alpha Monoceratid: none
Leonid: +4
North Taurid: -1, +1
Sporadic: +3(3)
Total meteors: six

Break: 06:00-07:00 Soon after 06:00 the sky became mostly cloudy.

07:00-08:00; 28 degrees F; wind N 3 mph; "clear"; average limiting magnitude
5.8; facing East 50 degrees; Total teff 1.0 hour
Time   mag.   type   comment
07:05  +3     AMO
07:10  +4     Spor
07:18  +4     LEO
07:24  +2     LEO    brief train
07:27  +1     Spor   orange
07:31   0     LEO    3 second train
07:38  +3     LEO    brief train
07:40  -2     Spor   0.5 second train
Alpha Monoceratid: +3
Taurid: none
Leonid: 0, +2, +3, +4
Sporadic: -2, +1, +4
Total meteors: eight

08:00-09:00; 26 degrees F; wind North 3 mph; clear; average limiting magnitude
5.9; facing East 50 degrees; Total teff 1.0 hour
Time   mag.   type   comment
08:00   0     STA
08:03  +2     NTA
08:08  +3     Spor
08:12  +2     Spor
08:16  +2     Spor   brief train
08:18   0     LEO    1 second train
08:18  +3     LEO    brief train
08:27  +4     LEO
08:35  +1     Spor
08:45  +3     Spor
08:45  -2     STA
08:47  -2     LEO    yellow; 2 second train
08:52  +2     Spor
Alpha Monoceratid: none
Leonid: -2, 0, +3, +4
North Taurid: +2
South Taurid: -2, 0
Sporadic: +1, +2(3), +3(2)
Total meteors: thirteen

Break: 09:00-09:30

09:30-10:30; 23 degrees F; wind N 2 mph; clear; average limiting magnitude 5.8;
facing East 50 degrees; Total teff 1.0 hour
Time   mag.   type   comment
09:37  +3     AMO
09:38  +3     LEO
09:39  +4     LEO
09:50  +2     Spor
09:51   0     Spor   orange
09:57  +2     Spor
09:59  +4     Spor
10:06  -3     LEO    yellow; 2 second train
10:12  +1     LEO    0.5 second train
10:12  -1     Spor   orange; brief train
10:13   0     Spor   yellow; brief train
10:14  +2     LEO
10:18  +1     LEO    yellow; 1.5 second train
10:20   0     NTA
10:22  +1     LEO    brief train
10:28   0     LEO    yellow; 1 second train
Alpha Monoceratid: +3
North Taurid: 0
Leonid: -3, 0, +1(3), +2, +3, +4
Sporadic: -1, 0(2), +2(2), +4
Total meteors: sixteen

10:30-11:30; 20 degrees F; calm; some freezing fog last half hour (had to wipe
frost off my glasses several times and got a heavy layer of frost on my top
blanket); average limiting magnitude 5.6; facing East 50 degrees; Total teff 1.0
hour
Time   mag.   type   comment
10:36  +2     Spor
10:39  +2     AMO    brief train
10:45  +1     Spor   yellow
10:48  +5     LEO
10:49   0     Spor   yellow
10:51  +1     Spor
10:54  +1     LEO    yellow; brief train
11:00   0     LEO    yellow; 1.5 second train
11:06  +2     LEO    brief train
11:08  -3     LEO    yellow; 4 second train
11:27  +3     Spor
11:28  +2     LEO    brief train
Alpha Monoceratid: +2
Leonid: -3, 0, +1, +2, +5
Taurid: none
Sporadic: 0, +1(2), +2, +3
Total meteors: eleven

The core of the zodiacal light was very bright above the horizon haze/fog.