(meteorobs) Some OCC meteors seen last Night!

george gwgliba at gmail.com
Tue Oct 4 13:38:06 EDT 2016


Correction on SPO Ave. Magn.

> SPO  0   0    0    2    4    4    10      [3.4]



> On Oct 3, 2016, at 12:55 PM, 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      [3.4]
> 
> Starry Skies,
> GWG
> 
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