(meteorobs) Observations Coweta, OK USA 10/11AUG2007

[Bill Godley]

DATE: Aug 10/11, 2007  BEGIN: 07:05 UT  END: 08:35 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/ digital voice recorder and talking clock
TEMP (Avg): 23 degrees C

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

OBSERVING PERIODS:

PERIOD,        F,    LM,   ANT, CAP, KCG, PER, SDA, SPO

07:05-08:35,  1.05,  5.2,     1,     0,      1,     11,      2,      6

MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION:

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

OBSERVING FIELD OBSTRUCTION:

5% entire duration of count

FOV generally centered at RA 22h 30m Dec +20

DEAD TIME: 0 minutes
BREAKS: none
TEFF = 1.50 hrs

MEAN LIMITING MAGNITUDE: 5.2

METEOR DATA:
                            
#,    TIME(UT), SHOWER, MAG,   SPEED,  COLOR,    TRAIN(SEC)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1,       07:07,    PER,          +2,           4,
2,       07:13,    SPO,          +4,           4,
3,       07:15,    SPO,          +3,           5,
4,       07:19,    KCG,          +2,           3,
5,       07:23,    PER,           +3,           4,
6,       07:28,    PER,           +4,           4,
7,       07:38,    SDA,           +3,           3,
8,       07:39,    SPO,           +1,           3,
9,       07:50,    PER,           +1,            4,
10,     07:51,    PER,           -3,             3,      yellow,     1-sec
11,     07:55,    PER,           +2,            4,
12,     08:00,    SDA,           +4,            3,
13,     08:13,    PER,            0,             4,     none,        wake
14,     08:18,    PER,           +5,            4,
15,     08:19,    SPO,           +4,            4,
16,     08:24,    PER,           +3,            4,
17,     08:29,    PER,           +3,            4,
18,     08:30,    SPO,           +2,            2,
19,     08:30,    ANT,            +4,            3,
20,     08:31,    PER,           +1,            4,
21,     08:32,    SPO,           +3,            3,


NOTES:

One fireball.  Gaps of 10, 11 and 13 minutes made the session seem less active than previous morning.  Action was picking up - but then the baby monitor got even more active and cut things a bit shorter than I had hoped.


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