(meteorobs) Lyrids 4/23/15 - Mathias, WVa
george
gwgliba at gmail.com
Thu Apr 23 15:34:18 EDT 2015
Screech Owl Hill Observatory, Mountain Meadows
Mathias, West Virginia
April 22/23 2015
I was able to get in another two hours of Lyrid meteor observing this
morning and rates were higher than expected near the end of the second
period during an apparent mini-outburst. Under clear skies from 6:00
to 8:00 UT, with a LM=6.5, I was able to see 25 Lyrids, but 14 of these
Lyrids were seen during a brief 12 minute mini-outburst from 7:44 to
7:56 UT. The best Lyrid was a nice -2 Lyrid seen at 7:38 UT that had a
2 second train and a yellow-orange-blue color. The average Lyrid was 2.8
magnitude and yellow in color. It was also fun seeing the new nova below
the lid of the teapot with the naked-sys at 5th magnitude.
Date Time (UT) Teff FOV LM Obst. SLE ANT LYR ACE SPO Total
04/23/15 6:00-7:00 1.0 18.5+70 6.5 0% 1 1 5 1 5 13
04/23/15 7:00-8:00 1.0 19.5+70 6.5 0% 0 6 20 1 9 36
Magn. Distributions April 23, 2015 - 06:00-08:00 UT - LM=6.5
-2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 total Ave.
SLE 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3.0
ANT 0 0 0 1 3 0 3 0 7 2.7
LYR 1 0 2 3 3 6 4 6 25 2.8
ACE 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 2.5
SPO 0 0 0 2 4 1 2 5 14 3.3
Starry Skies,
GWG
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