(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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