(meteorobs) Lyrid Obs. 4/21/13 - Lyrid Magn. Correction

George Gliba gliba at milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov
Wed Apr 24 11:42:49 EDT 2013


Correction on Lyrid Average Magnitude, which was 3.0 without the
fireball, but 2.1 including it.

GWG


On 4/23/13 10:48 AM, George Gliba wrote:
>
>      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    [2.1]
> 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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