(meteorobs) What are STAs?

[Eric Bynum]

Eric Bynum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
ebynum45 at gmail.com

On Mon, Oct 3, 2016, 11:55 AM george <gwgliba at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>            Screech Owl Hill Observatory,  Mountain Meadows
>                   Mathias, West Virginia - October 2/3, 2016
>
> We had partly cloudy to clear conditions that allowed some good
> meteor observing yesterday evening.  From 0:02 to 0:52 UT, with
> 50% obstruction from clouds and a building, I saw only one OCC,
> but it was a slow 1st magnitude beauty.  It was seen at 0:13 UT.
> It had a 1st magnitude yellow head that left a 3rd magnitude wake
> that continued along the same trajectory for a couple more degrees
> with the same speed. A really strange and cool meteor.
>
> After clearing up a while later, from 2:00 to 3:00 UT two more possible
> slow OCC meteors were seen at 2:02 and 2:14 UT that were 3rd and
> 2nd magnitude respectively. They were slower than the STAs seen.
>
> Date     Time (UT)   LM   %Obst.      FOV
> 10/3     0:02-0:52    6.7       50%      various
> OCC  STA  SPO   Total
>    1        1      3         5
>
> Date     Time (UT)   LM   %Obst.      FOV
> 10/3     2:00-3:00    6.5       20%    22.0 +12
> OCC  STA  SPO   Total
>    2        2      7        11
>
> Magn. Distributions October 3, 2016 - 0:02-3:00 UT - LM=6.6
>           0   1    2    3    4    5   Total   Ave.
> OCC  0   1    1    1    0    0     3       2.0
> STA   0   2    0    1    0    0     3        1.7
> SPO  0   0    0    2    4    4    10       2.2
>
> Starry Skies,
> GWG
>
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