(meteorobs) Observations Coweta, OK USA 13/14AUG2007 - Fireball KCG and 2 Lacertids?

[Bill Godley]

DATE: Aug 13/14, 2007  BEGIN: 06:00 UT  END: 07:30 UT
OBSERVER: Bill Godley
LOCATION: Long 95:57:44 W; Lat 35:56:52 N
CITY/STATE: Coweta, Oklahoma  ELEV: 650 ft
METHOD: Visual w/ digital voice recorder and talking clock
TEMP (Avg): 24 degrees C

OBSERVED SHOWERS: ANT, CAP, KCG, PER, SDA, SPO

OBSERVING PERIODS:

PERIOD,        F,    LM,   ANT, CAP, KCG, PER, SDA, SPO

06:00-07:30,  1.05,  5.1,     2,     2,      3,     18,      0,      8

MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION:

        -6, -5, -4, -3, -2, -1,  0, +1, +2, +3, +4, +5
        ------------------------------------------------------------
ANT  0,  0,  0,   0,  0,  0,  1,   0,  1,   0,   0,  0
CAP  0,  0,  0,   0,  0,  1,  0,   0,  1,   0,   0,  0
KCG  0,  1,  0,   0,  0,  0,  0,   1,  0,   1,   0,  0
PER  0,  0,  0,   0,  0,  2,  2,   2,  5,   4,   2,  1
SDA  0,  0,  0,   0,  0,  0,  0,   0,  0,   0,   0,  0 
SPO  0,  0,  0,   0,  0,  1,  0,   2,  1,   2,   2,  0

OBSERVING FIELD OBSTRUCTION:

5% entire duration of count

FOV generally centered at RA 22h 30m Dec +20

DEAD TIME: 0 minutes
BREAKS: none
TEFF = 1.50 hrs

MEAN LIMITING MAGNITUDE: 5.1

METEOR DATA:
                            
#,    TIME(UT), SHOWER, MAG,   SPEED,  COLOR,    TRAIN(SEC)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1,       06:00,    PER,          +2,           4,
2,       06:07,    SPO,          +4,           4,
3,       06:17,    PER,          +3,            4,
4,       06:19,    CAP,          +2,            2,
5,       06:20,    PER,           +3,           4,
6,       06:20,    PER,           +2,           4,
7,       06:24,    ANT,           +2,           3,
8,       06:25,    PER,           +2,           4,
9,       06:26,    PER,           +1,           3,
10,     06:26,    PER,           +2,            4,
11,     06:28,    PER,           +4,            4,
12,     06:29,    PER,            0,             4,
13,     06:31,    KCG,           +3,            2,
14,     06:32,    PER,           -1,             4,      none,      wake   
15,     06:35,    KCG,           -5,             2,      none,      3-sec 
16,     06:44,    PER,           +3,            4,
17,     06:49,    SPO,           +3,            3,
18,     06:50,    PER,           +3,            4,
19,     06:54,    PER,           +1,            4,
20,     06:57,    PER,           +2,            4,
21,     07:00,    SPO,           +1,            5,
22,     07:01,    PER,            0,             4,      none,      wake
23,     07:03,    SPO,           +3,            1,
24,     07:04,    SPO,           +4,            2,
25,     07:06,    KCG,           +1,            2,
26,     07:10,    SPO,           +2,            3,
27,     07:13,    ANT,             0,            3,
28,     07:16,    PER,            -1,            3,
29,     07:20,    PER,            +5,           4,
30,     07:23,    CAP,            -1,            1,       yellow,
31,     07:25,    PER,             +4,          4,
32,     07:29,    SPO,             -1,           4,      none,       1-sec
33,     07:29,    SPO,            +1,           4,



NOTES:

Kappa Cygnid fireball "falling from the sky" was glorious, best meteor I have seen in quite some time.

Last two meteors (listed as SPOs) were interesting.  Both were within maybe 10 seconds of one another, flashing near Perseid radiant but originating more from the direction off Lacerta.  Possible Lacertids?


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