(meteorobs) Aurigids from Northern Nevada on September 1, 2007

[Robin Gray]

Conditions on the evening of August 31 were not very
promising - clouds, high winds and a pall of white
alkaline dust in the air. But when I got up at 2 am
the clouds, wind and some of the dust was gone. The
remaining dust did interfere with transparency and
limiting magnitude, but I still saw the whole Aurigid
outburst. As you can see from the tables below, almost
all of it occurred in the hour between 10:46 and 11:46
UT.

September 1, 2007 Paradise Hill, Nevada, 20 miles
north of Winnemucca. Longitude 117 degrees, 37' 30"
West; Latitude 41 degrees 15' 0" north.

UT Period   Field   Teff   F    AUR   SPO

9:46-10:47   60N    1.00  1.0    1     4

10:47-11:52  60N    1.01  1.0   20     8

11:52-12:52  60N    1.00  1.0    1     0

Total Meteors: 34  Total Teff: 3.01

Distribution of Aurigids

UT Period     # Aurigids

9:46-10:16         0

10:16-10:46        1

10:46-11:16        10

11:16-11:46        9

11:46-12:16        1

12:16-12:52        0


Magnitude Distribution

Shower -6  -5  -4  -3  -2  -1  0  1  2  3  4

AUR     2       4       1   4  2  4  3  2  1

SPO                               2  4  3  3



Robin Gray
Winnemucca, Nevada 


       
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