(meteorobs) Lyrid Meteor Obs. 4/21/13 - Mathias, WVa

George Gliba gliba at milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov
Tue Apr 23 10:48:49 EDT 2013


      Screech Owl Hill Observatory, Mountain Meadows
                  Mathias, West Virginia
                    April 20/21, 2013

We had a partly cloudy night, but there were several periods
of excellent transparency. We saw comet PanSTARRS and I saw
several Lyrid meteors, including a -5 fragmenting Lyrid bolide
that had a lovely yellow-blue-green color that left a nice 22
second train seen at 8:56 UT. I was able to get two hours of
meteor observing in from 7:18-9:18 UT.  The results follow:

4/21/13 - FOV=19.5 +35 - Facing East - Obst.10% from bldg.

Time (UT)  LM  Obst. SLE ANT LYR NCY SPO Total Comments
7:18-8:18  6.2  10%   1   3   2   2   5   13  slight haze
8:18-9:18  6.4  10%   0   3   7   1   7   18  some twilight

Magn. Distributions 04/21/13, 10% obstruction
(7:18-9:18 UT LM=6.3)
     -5   0   1   2   3   4   5  total Ave.
SLE  0   0   0   0   0   1   0   1    4.0
ANT  0   2   0   1   2   1   0   6    2.0
LYR  1   0   3   0   1   2   2   9    3.1
NCY  0   0   0   1   1   0   1   3    3.3
SPO  0   0   0   3   4   1   4  12    3.5

Starry Skies,
GWG




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