(meteorobs) Meteor Obs. Nov. 13/14, Mathias, WVa

George Gliba gliba at milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov
Thu Nov 18 10:15:18 EST 2010


Correction made to time...

GWG



On 11/17/10 4:39 PM, George Gliba wrote:
>           Screech Owl Hill Observatory, Mountain Meadows
>              Mathias, West Virginia 385710N 0785544W
>                      November 13/14, 2010
>
> On the night of November 13/14, I was able to see a nice Southern
> Taurid Fireball that was about -4 magnitude and low in the NNW near
> the star Gamma Cygni. It gave off sparks and had a yellow-green-blue
> color. Later, I was able to observe meteors from 6:55 UT until 8:55
> UT and saw 28 meteors, but only 4 were Leonids. Other than sporadics,
> most of the meteors were Taurids, with 5 seen from the NTA, and 2
> seen from the STA. The best meteor of the session was a -1 magnitude
> yellow-green NTA seen at 7:38 [UT]. The best of the four Leonids
> seen was a 0 magnitude yellow LEO seen at 7:10 UT that had a 2 second
> train. The observing conditions were only fair to good, with a limiting
> magnitude average of 6.0 with 5% clouds and some haze.
>
>
>    Date    Time (UT)  LM  Obst. NTA STA LEO SPO Total  Commments
> 11/14/10  6:55-7:55  5.8  10%    2   2   2   9   15    some haze
> 11/14/10  7:55-8:55  6.2   0%    3   0   2   8   13    some haze
>
>
> Magnitude Distributions
>      -1   0   1   2   3   4   5  total Ave.
> NTA  1   0   1   0   3   0   0    5   1.8
> STA  0   1   1   0   0   0   0    2   0.5
> LEO  0   1   0   1   1   1   0    4   2.2
> SPO  0   0   2   6   3   5   1   17   2.6
>
> Clear Skies,
> GWG
>
>
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