(meteorobs) What are STAs?

[Paul Jones]

Hi Eric,
     The STAs are the Southern Taurids, which along with the Northern
Taurids next month, comprise the Anthelion (ANT) radiant source from early
September through early December.

Clear skies, Paul J in North Florida

On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Eric Bynum <ebynum45 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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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