(meteorobs) Possible New Radiant - 11/02/13 - Mathias, WVa

[Robert Lunsford]

George and All,

I searched the video radiants of the IMO and found a possible matching one with a location of 10:26 (156.6) +81, with a velocity of 43km/sec. Your radiant lies somewhat between this position and the SLD's mentioned by Esko. In both cases though these radiants have velocities less than 50km/sec. The Lyrids are in this velocity range and can still produce trains on its brightest meteors.

Thanks for sharing your interesting observation!

Bob

---- George Gliba <gliba at milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote: 
> 
> 
>        Screech Owl Hill Observatory, Mountain Meadows
>                     Mathias, West Virginia
>                      November 01/02, 2013
> 
> Although it was partly cloudy most of the night it did clear
> up beautifully and provided excellent transparency later.
> The transparency reached 6.6 at times with an average of 6.5
> for the hours that I formally observed meteors. It was so good
> that the Winter Milky Way and the Zodiacal Band intersected
> and made an 'X' in the morning sky. Earlier I saw a few nice
> orange colored AND meteors, but saw none while I did my formal
> meteor watching from 6:15 to 8:15 UT in the morning hours. We
> also saw comet C/2013 R1 Lovejoy in 25x100 binoculars just after
> midnight. It was easy to see at around 7th magnitude. It is a
> fine comet and getting brighter.
> 
> Unlike Paul Martsching at McFarland Park in Iowa the next night,
> I saw fairly good Taurid meteor rates and swift bright meteors
> coming from A POSSIBLE NEW METEOR RADIANT located at: 11.0 +75,
> which was very close to the OCT radiant seen 27 days earlier.
> Although they are probably not related, as they were similar in
> brightness but not speed. These meteors were swift and several
> left persistent trains! I am calling them NCT below. I saw seven
> of them in two hours. Video and Radar observations that night
> and nights around that time may show these meteors. Unfortunetly
> I was unable to look for them the next night due to clouds, but
> I did see a nice -5 sporadic fireball at 2:30 UT while observing
> casually.
> 
> 11/02/13 - FOV=8.0 +35, Facing East, Very Clear, 10% bldg. obst.
> 
> Time (UT)  LM  Obst.NTA STA ORI EGE ZCN LEO NCT SPO Total Note
> 6:15-7:15  6.5 10%   2   2   3   0   0   1   4   4   16   NCT?
> 7:15-8:15  6.5 10%   4   3   1   0   1   4   3   7   23   NCT?
> 
> Magn. Distributions 11/02/13, 10% bldg. obst. Very Clear
> Recording Meteors from 6:15-8:15 UT, LM=6.5
> 
>      -1   0   1   2   3   4   5  total  Ave.
> NTA  1   0   1   1   1   2   1    6    3.2
> STA  0   1   0   1   2   0   1    5    2.6
> ORI  0   0   0   1   0   2   1    4    3.8
> EGE  0   0   0   0   0   0   0    0    N/A
> ZCN  0   0   0   0   1   0   0    1    3.0
> NCT  1   0   2   2   2   0   0    7    1.6 !
> LEO  0   0   0   3   1   0   1    5    2.8
> SPO  0   0   1   3   3   3   1   11    3.0
> 
> Starry Skies,
> GWG
> 
> 
> 
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