(meteorobs) Observations 13/14Dec2008 GODWI Coweta, OK USA

[Bill Godley]

Catchup post from Geminids (see note below).

DATE: 13/14DEC2009 BEGIN: 05:15 UT  END: 09:45 UT
OBSERVER: Bill Godley  IMO OBSERVER CODE: GODWI
LOCATION: Long 95:42:45 W; Lat 35:56:52 N  IMO LOCATION CODE: 25759
CITY/STATE: Coweta, Oklahoma  ELEV: 650 ft (200 m)
METHOD: Visual w/ digital recorder and talking clock
TEMP (Avg): 3 degrees C

OBSERVED SHOWERS:  GEM, SPO

OBSERVING PERIODS:

PERIOD,        F,    LM,    GEM,  SPO
05:15-05:30,  1.05,  4.4,     5,      0,
05:30-05:45,   1.67,  4.4,     1,     0,
07:05-08:15,   1.67,   4.4,    6,     2,
    
MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION:
        -6, -5, -4, -3, -2, -1,  0,  +1, +2, +3, +4, +5 G
        --------------------------------------------------------------
GEM  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,   2,  2,   2,   2,   3,   1,   0
SPO  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,   0,  0,   0,   0,   2,   0,   0

OBSERVING FIELD OBSTRUCTION:
5% of FOV from 05:15 - 05:30
40% thereafter (clouds)


FOV  RA 10h 00m Dec +12
DEAD TIME: 0 minutes
BREAKS: 80 minutes
TEFF = 1.67 hours

METEOR DATA:
                            
#,    TIME(UT), SHOWER, MAG,  SPEED,  COLOR,    TRAIN(SEC)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BEGIN 05:15
1,    05:16,       GEM,          +1,     4,
2,    05:19,       GEM,          +2,     4,
3,    05:19,       GEM,          -1,      4,          yellow,
4,    05:25,       GEM,           +1,     3,
5,    05:30,       GEM,          +3,       4,
6,    05:44,       GEM,           0,       4,
BREAK 05:45 to 07:05
7,    07:06,       GEM,           +2,     3,
8,    07:26,       GEM,            +3,    4,
9,    07:34,      GEM,             +3,     3,
10,   07:39,       SPO,            +3,      3,
11,   07:42,     GEM,            +4,       4,
12,   08:03,      GEM,            -1,        4,
13,   08:07,      SPO,             +3,       2,
14,   08:09,      GEM,              0,        3,       turq
END 08:15
 
Notes:

Bright moonlight and lots of clouds.  Only input first 15 minutes to IMO electronic form since correction factors too great thereafter.