(meteorobs) Observations 17/18NOV2008 GODWI Coweta, OK USA

[Bill Godley]

Finally took in a few Leonids during this short stint.  All of them logged within 23 minutes between 0811 and 0834.

After going in and getting to bed, I dreamed that I saw a bolide exploding overhead with an audible BANG like a fireworks show.  I immediately thought to run inside to the computer to alert meteorobs - and then slowly came out of the haze and realized, dang, just a dream.


DATE: 17/18NOV2008  BEGIN: 08:00 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 (200 m)
METHOD: Visual w/ digital recorder and talking clock
TEMP (Avg): -1 degrees C

OBSERVED SHOWERS:  NTA, STA, LEO, SPO

OBSERVING PERIODS:

PERIOD,        F,    LM,    NTA,  STA,  LEO,  SPO
08:00-09:10,  1.05,  4.4,     1,      0,       4,       4

    
MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION:
        -6, -5, -4, -3, -2, -1,  0,  +1, +2, +3, +4, +5 
        --------------------------------------------------------------
NTA  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,   1,  0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0
STA  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,   0,  0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0
LEO  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,   1,  0,   1,   0,   2,   0,   0
SPO  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,   0,  0,   0,   2,   0,   2,   0

OBSERVING FIELD OBSTRUCTION:
5% entire duration of count

FOV generally centered at RA 06h 00m Dec +15
DEAD TIME: 0 minutes
BREAKS: 0 minutes
TEFF = 1.17 hours

MEAN LIMITING MAGNITUDE: 4.4

METEOR DATA:
                            
#,    TIME(UT), SHOWER, MAG,  SPEED,  COLOR,    TRAIN(SEC)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1,      08:01,    SPO,          2            3,
2,      08:11,    LEO,         +3,           4,
3,      08:28,    LEO,         -1,           4,       none,          wake
4,      08:32,    LEO,         +3,          3,
5,      08:34,    LEO,          +1,         5,        blue,           wake
6,      08:41,    SPO,          +4,          4,
7,      08:57,    SPO,           +2,          2,
8,      09:00,    NTA,           -1,          2,       yellow,
9,      09:09,    SPO,          +4,         3,


NOTES:

Nice NTA obligingly slid by Sirius to give me a good indication of brightness.

All 4 LEOs packed within 23 minute time period.