(meteorobs) Correction: Perseids 8/12/15 - Mathias, WVa

george gwgliba at gmail.com
Wed Aug 12 15:30:26 EDT 2015


Correction - Time an hour off.  So, "06:45-08:45 UT”
should be "05:45-07:45 UT”.  Need to get more sleep.

GWG

On Aug 12, 2015, at 1:37 PM, george <gwgliba at gmail.com> wrote:

>                   Screech Owl Hill Observatory,  Mountain Meadows  
>                            Mathias, West Virginia - August 12, 2015  
> 
> We had very good transparency and good Perseid rates for a couple hours last 
> night. Although the average Perseid was about 3rd magnitude, the brightest one 
> was a beautiful -3 magnitude blue-green colored Perseid bolide with a 5 second 
> train!  The Perseid rates were remarkably consistent for both hours, although the
> only minus magnitude Perseid was the bolide seen at [7:26 UT].  Three Perseids 
> were of 0 magnitude.
> 
>  Date     Time (UT)   LM   %Obst.    FOV  
> 8/12/15   [5:45-6:45]    6.6       0%    2.0+63 
> AUD  ANT  SDA  PAU  PER  ERI  BPE  SPO  Total 
>   2       3        3       0      35      0      1       9       53
> 
>  Date     Time (UT)   LM   %Obst.    FOV  
> 8/12/15   [6:45-7:45]    6.5       5%    3.0+63
> AUD  ANT  SDA  PAU  PER  ERI  BPE  SPO  Total 
>   0       3        1       1      34      2      1       6       48    
> 
> 
> Magn. Distributions August 12, 2015 - [05:45-07:45 UT] - LM=6.55,  2.5% Obst.
>          -3  -2  -1   0   1   2   3   4   5   Total   Ave.
> AUD    0   0   0   0   1   0   1   0   0      2      2.0
> ANT    0   0   0   0   0   2   1   2   1      6      3.3
> SDA    0   0   0   0   1   1   1   1   0      4      2.5
> PAU    0   0   0   0   0   1   0   0   0      1      2.0
> PER    1   0   0   3   6  11 23 16  9    69      2.9
> ERI     0   0   0   0   1   1   0   0   0      2      1.5
> BPE    0   0   0   0   0   1   0   1   0      2      3.0
> SPO   0   0   0   0   0   1   2   3   9     15      4.3
> 
> Starry Skies,
> GWG



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