(meteorobs) Obs: 29 Sep 2009

[pmartsching at mchsi.com]

29 Sep 2009 07:30-10:30 UT (CDST 28/29 Sep 02:30-05:30 am)

Paul Martsching
McFarland Park 4 miles NE of Ames, Story Co, Iowa, USA
Long: 93 deg 34 min W  Lat: 42 deg 05 min N  Elevation: 318 meters
Method: Visual; paper, pencil and talking clock

No meteors brighter than mag 0 and only two Taurids!

September Lyncids
South Taurids
Sporadics

07:30-08:30; 49 degrees F; dew point 41 deg F; wind NW 15 mph; clear; LM 5.7; facing ESE 50 degrees; total teff 1.0 hour
UT     mag    type    comment
07:37 +4       Spor
07:42 +3       Spor
08:01 +3       Spor
08:13 +1       Spor
08:28 +3       Spor
SLY: none
STA: none
Sporadics: five: +1; +3(3); +4
Total meteors: five

08:30-09:30; 48 deg F; dew pt 41 deg F; wind NW 13 mph gusting 21 mph; clear; LM 5.7; facing ESE 50 deg; total teff 1.0 hour
UT     mag    type    comment
08:31 +2       Spor
08:45 +3       Spor
08:46 +2       Spor
09:01 +3       Spor
09:11 +3       Spor
09:12 +1       Spor
09:17 +4       Spor
09:25 +1       SLY   yellow; brief train
SLY: one: +1
STA: none
Sporadics: seven: +1; +2(2); +3(3); +4
Total meteors: eight

09:30-10:30; 46 deg F; dew pt 40 deg F; wind NW 10 mph; clear; LM 5.8; facing E 50 deg; total teff 1.0 hour.  Usually facing East is darker at this site than facing ESE (less trouble with sky glow over Ames in the SW), but with the zodiacal light and with Venus annoyingly bright after 10:00 UT, it might have been better to have continued facing ESE.
UT     mag    type    comment
09:40 +4       Spor
09:43 +3       Spor
09:52 +1       STA   yellow
09:55  0        STA   yellow
09:58 +1       Spor
10:06 +1       Spor   yellow; brief train
10:11 +4       Spor
10:16 +3       Spor
10:23  0        Spor   yellow
10:24 +2       Spor
10:26 +3       Spor
SLY: none
STA: two: 0; +1
Sporadics: nine; 0; +1(2); +2; +3(3); +4(2)
Total meteors: eleven