(meteorobs) DEL Report Obs. 6/11/13 - Mathias, WVa

George Gliba gliba at milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov
Wed Jun 12 14:15:05 EDT 2013


        Screech Owl Hill Observatory, Mountain Meadows
                  Mathias, West Virginia
                      June 10/11, 2013

The rare possible reapperence of the Delphinid meteors seen
in 1930 on the morning of June 10/11 was possibly seen. They
seemed to be scarse or nonexistent. I was able to observe at
our cabin at Mountaon Meadows, West Virginia from 2:10 AM to
4:30 AM EDT and saw 3 possible candidates, including a nice
yellow-orange -3 magnitude DEL with a 12 second train seen at
4:17 AM EDT. The other two were of 3rd magnitude, and 4th
magnitude seen at 2:12 AM EDT and 4:04 AM EDT respectively.
Three meteors from the Xi Draconids, five meteors from the
Antihelion source, and two from the Daylight Arietids were
also seen, along with 18 sporadics. Although I was looking
for them, no June Lyrids were seen. One of the ARI meteors
seen was an Earth Grazer with a long trail, and they were
both of 2nd magnitude with a lovely blue-green color.

6/11/13 - FOV various - facing mostly SSE

Time (UT)  LM  Obst. ANT JLY XDR DEL ARI SPO Total Comments
6:10-7:10  6.5  20%   3   0   1   1   0   11  16  Mostly Clear
7:10-8:10  6.3  20%   2   0   2   1   1    5  11   Some Haze
8:10-8:30  5.4  30%   0   0   0   1   1    2   4   Twilight

Magn. Distributions 06/11/13, 22% obstruction
(6:10-8:30 UT LM=6.3)
     -3  -2  -1   0   1   2   3   4   5  total Ave.
ANT  0   0   0   0   0   1   2   1   1    5   3.4
JLY  0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0    0   N/A
XDR  0   0   0   1   0   0   1   0   1    3   2.7
DEL  1   0   0   0   0   0   1   1   0    3   2.3
ARI  0   0   0   0   0   2   0   0   0    2   2.0
SPO  0   0   1   1   2   2   3   4   5   18   3.3

Starry Skies,
GWG




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