(meteorobs) Observations 09/10AUG2010 GODWI Coweta, OK

[Pierre Martin]

Hello Bill,

Nice reports!  I was able to get out for most of last night under a  
mag 6.6 sky.  Perseids activity seemed to be a bit slower than  
expected (given what I saw last Thursday and Friday nights), but that  
could be also just an impression given that the vast majority of the  
meteors from last night were very faint (lots of mag +4 and +5's).  No  
fireballs were seen.

I certainly took notice of a few Eridanids these past few mornings.   
The radiant is very low in the east, so I never see many of these.
Last night also seemed to have an unusually high number of Kappa  
Cygnids (all quite faint).

Finally, I neglected mentioning in my reports of Aug 5/6 and 6/7 that  
I took notice of two very slow moving meteors, with long paths,  
seeming to originate from Bootes.  That large fragmenting earthgrazing  
fireball that I saw was one of them.  Although a very small sample,  
and my FOV was well away from Bootes (therefore pin-pointing a radiant  
wasn't possible).  It just caught my attention as a possible activity  
from Bootes in early August, as reported by David Oesper on meteorobs.

Will report more tomorrow...

Pierre Martin
Ottawa, Ontario






On 10-Aug-10, at 2:15 PM, Bill Godley wrote:

> Didn't see a single Perseid the first 29 minutes.
>
> Also, see notes about Eridanid and radiant confusion.  Sorry.
>
> // Header section
> night        2010-08-09/10
> begin        2010-08-10 0715
> end          2010-08-10 0845
> observer    "William" "Godley" "GODWI"
> location    95 42 45 W, 35 56 52 N
> site        "Coweta, Oklahoma" "United States" "83206"
> reporter    "wwgj180 at yahoo.com"
>
> // Shower section
> shower    ANT 328 -11
> shower    CAP 307 -10
> shower    ERI 052 -15 <---- I based sighting on 042/-11 - should  
> have fixed IMO
> input
> shower    KCG 286 +59
> shower    PER 046 +58
> shower    SDA 339 -16
> shower    SPO
>
>
> Visual count utilizing a digital recorder.
>
> Interval        RA  Dec  Teff      F      Lm
> 0715-0745  355 +11   0.50   1.05  5.20
> -----------------------------------------
> PER -5(0), 0(0), +1(0), +2(1), +3(0), +4(0) = 1 total
> ERI 0(1) = 1 total
> ANT +2(1) = 1 total
> SPO +2(1) = 1 total
> Interval total = 4
>
> Interval        RA  Dec  Teff      F      Lm
> 0745-0815  355 +11   0.50   1.05  5.20
> -----------------------------------------
> PER -5(0), -4(0), -3(0), -2(0), -1(1), 0(0), +1(1), +2(0), +3(2),  
> +4(1) = 5
> total
> CAP +3(1) = 1 total
> KCG +2(1) = 1 total
> SPO +1(1), +3(2), +5(1) = 4 total
> Interval total = 11
>
> Interval        RA  Dec  Teff      F      Lm
> 0815-0845  355 +11   0.50   1.05  5.20
> -----------------------------------------
> PER 0(1), +1(1) = 2 total
> ANT +2(1) = 1 total
> KCG +1(1) = 1 total
> SDA +3(1) = 1 total
> Interval total = 5
>
> Count total = 20 meteors
>
> // Personal comments
> ERI (Eridanid) shot from low in the SE.  Form check routine gives an  
> error that
> the shower radiant was below the horizon but I checked w/ Stellarium  
> and believe
> radiant was above the horizon at time of meteor appearance (0720  
> UT).  *** Note
> - I checked based on radiant shown in Lunsford Weekly Outlook  
> (042/-11) and not
> the coordinates built into the form for ERI (052/-15).  I guess I  
> should have
> overwritten the pre-populated number.
>
> No PER until the 29th minute of the count.
>
>
>
>
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