(meteorobs) Meteor Obs. 9/19/11 - Mathias. WVa

[George Gliba]

     Screech Owl Hill Observatory, Mountain Meadows
                 Mathias, West Virginia
                      Sept. 19, 2011

We had a fairly good night, which was partly clear before
it became all clear after midnight for looking at meteors.
Earlier we saw the bright SN 2011fe and comet Garradd
C/2009 P1 in 12x63 binoculars and various telescopes.
Although the bright half-moon was up, facing West between
3:48 and 5:48 UT I was able to see 22 meteors. The brightest
was a 0 magnitude STA bolide that started as a 3rd magnitude
meteor that ended with a yellow-green terminal burst. A nice
medium-slow meteor. A few other STAs were seen, along with
several Sporadics and one nice NUE seen at 5:46 UT that was
1st magnitude and yellow-green colored with a 3 second train.

  Date    Time (UT)  LM  Obst.  STA  NUE  SPO  Total    FOV
09/19/11 3:48-4:48  6.2  10%    1    0    6     7    19.5 +20
09/19/11 4:48-5:48  6.2   0%    3    1   11    15    20.5 +40

TeFF=2.0 hours

Magnitude Distributions 09/19/11 (3:48-5:48 UT LM=6.2)
     -1   0   1   2   3   4   5  total  Ave.
STA  0   1   1   0   1   1   0    4    2.0
NUE  0   0   1   0   0   0   0    1    1.0
SPO  0   0   2   2   5   3   5   17    3.4


Starry Skies,
GWG