(meteorobs) Late Ursids 12-24-06, WVa

[George Gliba]

               Screech Owl Hill Observatory, Mountain Meadows
                      West Virginia 385710N 0785544W
                             December 23/24, 2006

 We went up to our cabin at Mountain Meadows, West Virginia to try to 
see some
late Ursids (URS) and Coma Berenicids (COM) meteors. The transparency 
was good
to excellent and I was able to get in three hours of meteor observing 
before
clouds came in. There were a few URS, and there was good activity from 
the COM
minor meteor shower. The last hour, there were a few Epsilon Virginids (EVR)
seen. There were no meteors brighter than 1st magnitude. The few URS 
seen were
on the faint side, but distinct.


  Time (UT)  LM  %Obst. ANT   COM   EVR   URS   SPO  Total   FOV   Comments
05:00-06:00  6.5   0%    3     0     0     2     8    13   10.0+60   clear
06:00-07:00  6.5   0%    4     5     0     2    11    22   11.0+60   clear
07:00-08:00  6.4  20%    0     4     3     1    10    18   various  20% 
cloudy

Magnitude Distributions (05:00-08:00 UT)

     -1   0   1   2   3   4   5  total  Ave.
ANT  0   0   2   1   1   3   0    7    2.7
COM  0   0   1   1   2   3   2    9    3.4
EVR  0   0   1   0   0   1   1    3    3.0
URS  0   0   0   0   1   3   1    5    4.0
SPO  0   0   1   4   9   7   8   29    3.6

Clear Skies.
GWG