(meteorobs) Meteor Obs. Sept. 12-14, Mathias, WVa

[George Gliba]

            Screech Owl Hill Observatory, Mountain Meadows
               Mathias, West Virginia 385710N 0785544W
                       September 12th - 14th, 2010

   We had one totally clear night with a slight haze, and one partly cloudy
night that ended out with some excellent transparency. There was very good
sporadic activity, and a good showing from a few minor meteor showers. The
best meteor seen was a nice -2 magnitude September Perseid that had a train
that lasted 3 or 4 seconds, and a had a yellow-green color. One nice 
sporadic
meteor became bifurcated, and traveled in parallel paths. The big surprise
was seeing 4 meteors from the Beta Triangilid radiant the last hour of the
second night. I was able to get only two good hours of meteor observing on
each night, because I wanted to do some other types of observing as well,
which I was able to do, including seeing two comets. Below are my meteor
results for both nights.

September 12/13, 2010

  Time (UT)   LM %Obst STA  ATR  AAR  BTR  SIC  SEP  SET  NUE  SPO  Total
  6:00-7:00  6.4   0%   4    1    0    0    0    2    1    2   11    22
  7:00-8:00  6.4   0&   6    2    0    1    0    4    0    1   13    27

September 13/14, 2010

  Time (UT)   LM %Obst STA  ATR  AAR  BTR  SIC  SEP  SET  NUE  SPO  Total
  6:00-7:00  6.0  15%   4    1    0    2    1    1    2    0    7    18
  7:00-8:00  6.6   0&   4    2    2    4    0    4    2    2   16    36

Magnitude Distributions (Sept. 12/13 & 13/14, 6:00-8:00 UT, 3.75% 
cloudy, LM=6.35)

     -2  -1   0   1   2   3   4   5  total Ave.
STA  0   0   0   5   4   4   2   3   18   2.7
ATR  0   0   0   0   0   1   1   4    6   4.5
AAR  0   0   0   0   0   1   0   1    2   4.0
BTR  0   0   0   0   0   3   2   2    7   3.9
SIC  0   0   0   0   0   0   1   0    1   4.0
SEP  1   0   0   4   3   2   0   1   11   1.7
SET  0   0   0   0   1   0   1   3    5   4.2
NUE  0   0   0   2   1   2   0   0    5   2.0
SPO  0   0   4   7   8   8   8  12   47   3.0


Clear Skies,
GWG