(meteorobs) Obs: 21/22 Sept 2007

[pmartsching at mchsi.com]

07:00-10:00 22 Sept 2007 UT (CDST 21/22 Sept 2:00-5:00am)

Paul Martsching
McFarland Park 4 miles NE of Ames, Story County, IA
Long: 93 deg 34 min W  Lat: 42 deg 05 min N  Elevation: ~1,040 feet
Method: Visual: paper, pencil and talking clock

07:00-08:00; 58 deg F; wind N 3 mph; clear; average limiting magnitude 6.0;
facing East 50 degrees; total teff 1.0 hour
Time   mag.  type   comment
07:13  +3    Spor
07:14  +4    Spor
07:24  +2    Spor
07:51  +1    Spor   0.5 second train
Antihelion: none
Delta Aurigid: none
Sporadics: four: +1, +2, +3, +4
Total meteors: four

08:00-09:00; 54 deg F; wind calm; clear; average limiting magnitude 5.9; facing
East 50 degrees; total teff 1.0 hour
Time   mag.  type   comment
08:37  +1    Spor   1 second train; Canis Minor > Triangulum
08:41  +3    Spor
08:49  +3    Spor   brief train
08:59   0    DAU    yellow; 0.5 second train
Antihelion: none
Delta Aurigid: one: 0
Sporadics: three: +1, +3(2)
Total meteors: four

09:00-10:00; 50 deg F; wind calm; clear; aver.lim.mag. 5.9; facing East 50 deg;
total teff 1.0 hour
Time   mag.   type   comment
09:04  +2     Spor   1 second train
09:18  +3     Spor
09:25   0     ANT    orange
09:32   0     Spor   orange
09:35  +1     Spor
Antihelion: one: 0
Delta Aurigid: none
Sporadics: 0, +1, +2, +3
Total meteors: five

No obvious reason for few meteors; awake, eyes roaming field of view as usual;
seeing jets immediately as they entered my field of view.