(meteorobs) Observations 12/13Aug2008 Coweta, OK USA

[Bill Godley]

I thought I had about three dozen PERs as the file count on my digital recorder read 48.  But the SPO entries, musings about LM, worrying about if fog would form, and attempted recordings of a contentious barred owl convention (it is election season after all) cut into my number.  36 turned into 31.  Oh well, it was enjoyable nonetheless.  I also got out on 13/14 for a short stint that I will report on later.

DATE: 12/13AUG2008  BEGIN: 06:40 UT  END: 09:10 UT
OBSERVER: Bill Godley  IMO OBSERVER CODE: GODWI
LOCATION: Long 95:42:45 W; Lat 35:56:52 N  IMO LOCATION CODE: 75207
CITY/STATE: Coweta, Oklahoma  ELEV: 650 ft
METHOD: Visual w/ digital recorder and talking clock
TEMP (Avg): 19 degrees C

OBSERVED SHOWERS:  KCG, PER, SPO

OBSERVING PERIODS:

PERIOD,        F,    LM,   KCG, PER, SPO
06:40-07:10,  1.05,  4.6,    0,      7,      1
07:10-07:40,  1.05,  4.6,    0,      7,      1
07:40-08:10,  1.05,  4.8,    0,      6,      2
08:10-08:40,  1.05,  5.0,    0,      6,      2
08:40-09:10   1.05,  5.1,    0,      5,      1
TOTAL-------------------------- 0,      31,     7

    
MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION:
        -6, -5, -4, -3, -2, -1,  0,  +1, +2, +3, +4, +5 
        --------------------------------------------------------------
KCG  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,   0,  0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0
PER  0,  0,  1,  0,  2,   3,  6,   7,   4,   6,   1,   1
SPO  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,   1,  0,   3,   1,   1,   1,   0

OBSERVING FIELD OBSTRUCTION:
5% entire duration of count

FOV generally centered at RA 22h 00m Dec +30
DEAD TIME: 0 minutes
BREAKS: 0 minutes
TEFF = 2.50 hours

MEAN LIMITING MAGNITUDE: 4.9

METEOR DATA:
                            
#,    TIME(UT), SHOWER, MAG,  SPEED,  COLOR,    TRAIN(SEC)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1,      06:43,    PER,        +1            4,
2,      06:44,    PER,         +1,           4,
3,      06:44,    PER,         -1,            4,
4,      06:46,    PER,          0,            4,
5,      06:53,    PER,          +3,           4,
6,      07:04,    PER,          +1,           4,
7,      07:06,    SPO,         +4,            3,
8,      07:07,    PER,           0,            4,
9,      07:19,    PER,          0,             4,        none,         wake
10,    07:24,    PER,         -1,             4,         none,         1-sec
11,    07:26,    PER,         +3,            4,
12,    07:27,    SPO,         +3,            4,
13,    07:27,    PER,         +3,            4,
14,    07:30,    PER,          +2,           4,
15,    07:31,    PER,          -2,            3,
16,    07:39,    PER,          -4,             4,       blue-pink,   3-sec
17,    07:41,    PER,         +1,            4,
18,    07:45,    SPO,         +1,            3,
19,    07:51,    PER,         +1,            4,
20,    07:58,    PER,         +3,            4,
21,    08:00,    PER,         +3,            4,
22,    08:03,    SPO,         -1,            3,
23,    08:07,    PER,         +3,            4,
24,    08:08,    PER,         +1,            4,
25,    08:15,    PER,         -1,             4,
26,    08:30,    PER,          -2,            4,          none,       2-sec
27,    08:31,    PER,           0,            4,           red
28,    08:32,    SPO,           +1,           4
29,    08:33,    PER,           +2,           4
30,    08:35,    PER,           +4,           4
31,    08:37,    PER,            0,            4
32,    08:37,    SPO,           +1,           3 
33,    08:43,    PER,            +2,           4
34,    08:46,    PER,            +5,           4
35,    08:47,    PER,            +2,           4
36,    09:01,    PER,             0,            4
37,    09:03,    PER,            +1,           4,       orange
38,    09:09,    SPO,           +2,            3


NOTES:
No KCG.