(meteorobs) Observations Coweta, OK USA 24/25JUL2007

Bill Godley wwgj180 at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 25 22:49:40 EDT 2007


DATE: Jul 24/25, 2007  BEGIN: 08:25 UT  END: 09:40 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): 16 degrees C

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

OBSERVING PERIODS:

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

08:25-09:40,  1.05,  5.1,    2,      2,      0,      3,      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,   1,   1,  0
CAP  0,  0,  0,   0,  0,  0,  0,   1,  0,   0,   1,  0
PAU  0,  0,  0,   0,  0,  0,  0,   0,  0,   0,   0,  0 
PER  0,  0,  0,   0,  0,  1,  0,   1,  1,   0,   0,  0
SDA  0,  0,  0,   0,  0,  0,  0,   0,  0,   0,   1,  1 
SPO  0,  0,  0,   0,  0,  0,  1,   1,  0,   3,   1,  0

OBSERVING FIELD OBSTRUCTION:

5% entire duration of count

FOV generally centered at RA 21h 40m Dec +10

DEAD TIME: 0 minutes
BREAKS: none
TEFF = 1.25 hrs

MEAN LIMITING MAGNITUDE: 5.2

METEOR DATA:
                            
#,    TIME(UT), SHOWER, MAG,   SPEED,  COLOR,    TRAIN(SEC)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1,      08:28,     SPO,          +1,           4,
2,       08:29,    SPO,           +3,           3,
3,       08:30,    ANT,           +3,           3,
4,       08:37,    CAP,           +1,           2,
5,       08:45,    SPO,           +3,           2,
6,       08:52,    SDA,           +4,           4,
7,       08:54,    CAP,           +4,           3,
8,       09:04,    PER,           -1,            4,     none,          wake,
9,       09:11,   SDA,           +5,            4,
10,      09:19,   PER,            +2,           4,
11,      09:19,   SPO,           +4,           4,
12,      09:25,   SPO,            0,             2,
13,      09:32,   ANT,             +4,           3,
14,      09:35,   SPO,            +3,           3,
15,      09:35,   PER,             +1,          4,    yellow,

NOTES:

Surprisingly nice conditions for viewing.  About 60 degrees F and the bugs not too bad
even though E. Oklahoma has seen quite a bit of rain this spring and summer.  Summer haziness
not as bad as expected.  Early Perseids were an unexpected treat.


       
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