(meteorobs) Lyrids in Iowa

[Paul Martsching]

I observed for three hours and then got clouded out.  The best Lyrid was mag -3 with 2 second train during the third hour, when conditions were gradually deteriorating. 

McFarland Park 4 miles NE of Ames, Iowa
Long: 93 deg 34 min W; Lat: 42 deg 05 min N; elevation 315 meters

23 April 2015 0520-0620 UT 36 deg F; dew pt 21 deg F; wind NW 6 mph; clear; average LM 5.7; facing ENE 45 deg; teff 1.0 hr.
ANT: one: +2
LYR: two: +2, +3
Sporadics: two: +3(2)
Total meteors: five

23 April 2015 0620-0720 UT 33 deg F; dew pt 22 deg F; wind NW 6 mph; clear; average LM 5.8; facing ENE 45 deg; teff 1.0 hr.
ANT: one: - 1
LYR: five: - 1, +3, +4(2), +5
Sporadics: two: +3(2)
Total meteors: eight

23 April 2015 0720-0820 UT 3 deg F; dew pt 22 deg F; wind W 7 mph; clear till 805 when patchy thin haze began moving in from the North, then small clouds began moving into FOV; (there were clouds in the western sky behind me from 0800 onward); average LM 5.3; facing ENE 45 deg; teff 1.0 hr.
ANT: none
LYR: two: - 3, +1
Sporadics: four: +2, +3(2), +4
Total meteors: six

It was essentially overcast by 0900.  

If the sky had remained clear, possibly more Lyrids might have been seen toward morning twilight.

Paul Martsching