(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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