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(meteorobs) Meteor Report Aug 13/14 HALWA
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DATE 1996 AUG 13/14
BEGIN 0524UT END 0851UT
OBSERVER Wayne T Hally IMO CODE: HALWA
SITE 74d 53' 54" West 40d 40' 52"
SITE: High Bridge, NJ, USA (NJAA Observatory)
Recorded on Tape and plotted
Recording Time 80 sec/meteor plotted (2 seconds for non-plotted)
ALL TIMES IN UNIVERSAL TIME
Breaks: 0625 to 0635
0650 to 0710
0% sky obscured throughout
Total Dead Time 32 minutes (3 min first per, 29 min 2nd period)
Total Teff 2.42 hours
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SHOWERS OBSERVED
PER 49d +59
KCG 285d +59
UPG 351d +19 (ALPO Shower, reported as SPO)
Counts per Period and per Shower
PERIOD FieldView Teff F LM PER KCG Spor Total
0524-0650 000d +90 1.22 1 5.61 8 1 11 20 (Count Only)
0710-0851 350d +19 1.20 1 5.52 8 2 12 22 (Plot Only)
MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTIONS
Shower -2 -1 00 +1 +2 +3 +4 +5 Total Mean
PER 2 1 1 3 3 6 0 0 16 +1.38
KCG 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 3 +2.67
SPO 1 0 1 3 5 6 4 3 23 +2.61
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LIMITING MAGNITUDES
TIME Area Cnt LM
0525 18 11 5.7
0525 7 11 5.4
0555 18 11 5.7
0555 7 12 5.5
0555 2 10 5.6
0625 18 12 5.9
0635 7 11 5.4
0635 14 12 5.7
0710 1 11 6.0
0730 1 11 6.0
0730 14 11 5.5
0800 14 10 5.2
0800 1 11 6.0
0830 14 9 5.2
0830 7 10 5.2
0850 14 9 5.2
0850 1 6 4.9
MEAN MAGNITUDE = 5.53
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METEOR DATA
## Time Mag Spd Clr Trn Shwr Map# Plot acc
01 0526 +3 2 Wh - - Spor NP
02 0527 -2 2 Wh wake Spor NP See note 1
03 0529 +3 3 Wh 2.0s PER NP
04 0533 -1 4 Wh - - PER NP
06 0538 +1 4 Wh - - Spor NP
08 0543 +2 4 Wh - - Spor NP
09 0545 +2 3 Wh - - Spor NP
10 0548 +3 3 Wh - - PER NP
11 0555 +3 4 Wh - - PER NP
12 0558 +0 2 Wh - - Spor NP
13 0602 +4 3 Wh - - Spor NP
14 0604 +5 3 Wh - - Spor NP
15 0603 +0 2 Yel 0.5s KCG NP see note 2!!!
16 0615 +2 4 Wh - - PER NP
17 0618 +2 3 Wh - - Spor NP
18 0622 +4 3 Wh - - Spor NP
Break - - Numbers start over for plotting charts--sorry
01 0638 +3 5 Wh - - Spor 1 1
02 0643 +3 5 Wh - - PER 1 2
03 0714 +3 4 Wh - - Spor 3 1
04 0723 +0 5 Wh wake PER 3 1
05 0723 +1 3 Wh wake Spor NP
06 0740 +1 4 Wh 0.5s Spor 3 1
07 0744 +2 5 Wh wake PER 3 1
08 0752 +4 4 Wh - - Spor 3 1
09 0756 +3 2 Wh - - Spor 1 1
10 0758 +3 4 Wh - - PER 3 1
11 0800 +1 5 Wh wake PER 1 1
12 0801 +2 4 Wh - - PER 3 1
13 0805 -2 4 Wh 1.0s PER 3 1
14 0809 +5 3 Wh - - Spor 3 1
15 0813 -2 5 Wh 1.0s PER 3 1
16 0817 +5 2 Wh - - KCG 6 1
17 0823 +3 3 Wh - - Spor 1 2
18 0826 +4 4 Wh - - Spor 3 1
19 0828 +3 2 Wh - - KCG 3 1
20 0829 +2 2 Wh - - Spor 1 1
21 0837 +5 3 Wh - - Spor 1 1 UPG(ALPO)
22 0845 +3 2 Wh - - Spor 3 1
23 0847 +1 1 Wh wake Spor 3 1
24 0849 +3 5 Wh - - PER 1 1
SESSION ENDED 0851****Twilight and 2 inches of dew on all
surfaces*****
note 1: Meteor # 2 (not plotted group) covered 35 degrees of sky.
Magnitude +2 for 60% of path, then flared to -2 for 30% of path, finally
broke into several pieces
during last 10% as brightness faded. A definite triple WOW!
note2: Meteor #15 (not plotted group). Probably the most beautiful meteor I
have ever witnessed, a KCG. Golden yellow color, moving slowly with
"sparkles" forming a comet shaped head and tail!
I used up all my WOW's for the night, and even threw in a few other
interesting words.