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

[George Gliba]

Esko,

It seems possible that it was an outburst of this radiant.  I just 
looked at my original
data and noted only two of them had apparent trains despite their 
brightness, implying
that they may have had velocities less than a stream like the Perseids 
for instance.  Then
it would be hard to say what the actually velocity was, but if we assume 
that the other five
seen without trains were SLD, and omit the two trained meteors as 
sporadic pollution, it is
very possibly an apparent outburst the *Southern lambda Draconids* 
meteor stream.  Very
interesting.  It would be interesting to see if Video or Radar 
observation exist around the
time period I was out, or before and/or after I saw them.

Suspected Meteors from SLD or New Radiant - 11-2-13,  6:15-8:15 UT

   Time (UT)    Magnitude  Color  Train   Dur. of Train
      6:18               2nd      white       no
      6:19               3rd           "           "
      6:26               2nd       white       "
      6:44               1st   blue-green  yes      3 sec.
      7:22               3rd        yellow no
      8:08             -1st            "         yes      3 sec.
      8:11               1st            "          no


Thanks,
GWG
Starry Skies


On 11/5/13 12:54 PM, Esko Lyytinen wrote:
>
> There is the IAU working list shower 526 *SLD *in nearby and your 
> observation was not far from the given solar longitude.
> http://www.ta3.sk/IAUC22DB/MDC2007/Roje/pojedynczy_obiekt.php?kodstrumienia=00526&colecimy=2&kodmin=00021&kodmax=00572&sortowanie=0
>
> Esko
>
> 2013-11-05 17:14, George Gliba 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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