(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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