(meteorobs) Observations Coweta, OK USA Aug31/Sep01 2007

[Bill Godley]

Definitely worth getting up early - moon or not!

DATE: Aug 31/Sep 1, 2007  BEGIN: 09:30 UT  END: 11:15 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): 21 degrees C

OBSERVED SHOWERS: AUR, SPO

OBSERVING PERIODS:

PERIOD,        F,    LM,   AUR, SPO

09:30-10:30,  1.1,   4.7,     2,     1
10:30-11:00,  1.1,   4.5,     3,     1
11:00-11:15,  1.1,   4.0,     4,     0

MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION:

        -6, -5, -4, -3, -2, -1,  0, +1, +2, +3, +4, +5
        ------------------------------------------------------------
AUR  0,  0,  1,   1,  0,  2,  1,   1,  1,   1,   1,  0
SPO  0,  0,  0,   0,  0,  0,  0,   1,  0,   1,   0,  0

OBSERVING FIELD OBSTRUCTION:

10% entire duration of count

FOV generally centered at RA 2h 00m Dec +60

DEAD TIME: 0 minutes
BREAKS: none
TEFF = 1.75 hrs

MEAN LIMITING MAGNITUDE: 4.5 (weighted average)

METEOR DATA:
                            
#,    TIME(UT), SHOWER, MAG,   SPEED,  COLOR,    TRAIN(SEC)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1,       09:55,    AUR,           0,           4,         red
2,       10:01,    SPO,          +3,          4,
3,       10:07,    AUR,          +2,          4,
4,       10:34,    SPO,          +1,          3,
5,       10:35,    AUR,           -1,          5,
6,       10:40,    AUR,           -4,          4,         orange,      2-sec
7,       10:42,    AUR,           +4,         5,
8,       11:01,    AUR,           +3,         3,
9,       11:04,    AUR,           -1,          4,
10,     11:07,    AUR,           -3,           4,         red,          7-sec
11,     11:09,    AUR,           +1,          5,

NOTES:

Bright waning gibbous moon through duration of count.  Looked northeast and used ballcap to keep moon out of line of sight.

Glad to have seen some Aurigids.  The second fireball produced one of the longest lasting persistent trains that I have seen in quite some time.


       
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