(meteorobs) Obs: 10/11 Aug 2008

[pmartsching at mchsi.com]

11 Aug 2008 05:45 - 09:00 UT (3 five-minute breaks); (CDST 10/11 Aug 12:45-4:00am)

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

Some haze throughout the session, gradually worsening.  Sky glow over Ames in SW
and Story City in N unusually bright; by the middle of the session could see
bright sky glow over Nevada in the SE.

05:45-06:45; 58 degrees F; calm; "clear"; average limiting magnitude 5.7; facing
NE 45 degrees; total teff 1.0 hour
Antihelion: two: -2; 0
Capricornid: one: 0
Kappa Cygnid: none
Perseids: eight: 0; +1(2); +2(2); +3, +4; +5
Sporadics: three: -3; +3(2)
Total meteors; fourteen

06:50-07:50; 57 deg F; calm; "clear"; average limiting magnitude 5.6; facing ENE
50 degrees; total teff 1.0 hour
Antihelion: none
Capricornid: none
Kappa Cygnid: none
Perseids: fifteen: -3; -1; 0(2); +1(2); +2(5); +3(2); +4; +5
Sporadics: five: +2; +3(2); +4(2)
Total meteors: twenty

08:00-09:00; 56 deg F; calm; frequent patches of haze/thin fog/very thin cloud
moving thru field of view; average 10% dense cloud obstruction in field of view
- mostly low in North; average lim. mag. 5.0; facing ENE 50 degrees; total teff
1.0 hour
Antihelion: none
Capricornid: none
Kappa Cygnid: none
Perseids: sixteen: -2(2); -1; 0; +1; +2; +3(6); +4(3); +5
Sporadics: two: +1; +3
Total meteors: eighteen