(meteorobs) Obs: 08/09 August 2008

[pmartsching at mchsi.com]

09 August 2008 07:15-08:30 UT (CDST 08/09 Aug 2:15-3:30am)

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

I arrived at my usual observing location at 1:30 hoping it would clear, as the
clouds were moving NW > SE and there was relatively clear sky a ways to the NW
on the satellite infrared.  About 2:15 the clouds thinned enough to have mostly
clear sky.  The were thunderstorms to the North and always some clouds in the
Southwest and sometimes in the South.  After 3:30 it got cloudier and at 4:00 I
went home.

07:15-08:30; 64 degrees F at beginning and 63 deg at end; calm; average cloud
cover 15% (At beginning ~30% and some were in the middle of my field of view;
but soon most of the clouds were in the north - thunderstorms - in my left field
of view; also some off and on in the South - my right field of view - during the
entire session.); average limiting magnitude 5.5; facing East 50 degrees; total
teff 1.25 hours.
Time   mag.   type   comment
07:15  +2     Spor
07:16  +1     Spor   orange
07:17  +2     PER    train
07:23  +4     PER
07:28  -1     PER    orange; 1 second train
07:29  +2     PER    yellow; train
07:32  +2     PER    train
07:37  +1     Spor   yellow
07:45  +3     Spor
07:46  +1     PER    train
07:51  +1     PER    train
07:57  +3     Spor
07:58   0     PER    yellow; train
07:59  +3     Spor
08:01  +4     Spor
08:03  +4     PER
08:11   0     PER    yellow; train
08:12  +1     PER    train
08:15  +1     PER    train
08:15  +3     PER
08:17  -1     Spor   yellow; 2 second train
08:21  +2     Spor
08:23  +2     Spor
08:29  +3     Spor
Antihelion: none
Capricornid: none
Kappa Cygnid: none
Perseids: thirteen: -1; 0(2); +1(4); +2(3); +3; +4(2)
South Delta Aquarids: none
Sporadics: eleven: -1; +1(2); +2(3); +3(4); +4
Total meteors: twenty-four in one hour and fifteen minutes