(meteorobs) Meteor Obs. 8/03/08 - Mathias, WVa
George Gliba
gliba at milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov
Mon Aug 4 09:51:28 EDT 2008
Screech Owl Hill Observatory, Mountain Meadows
Mathias, West Virginia 385710N 0785544W
August 02/03, 2008
We had partly cloudy conditions until after midnight;
then it cleared up beautifully. The transparency was the
best that I have see it in a while, with the LM reaching
6.7 for a short time, and the zodiacal band was apparent.
I was able to get in three hours of meteor observing from
5 to 8 UT. The naked-eye Milky Way was wonderful, and comet
C/2007 W1 Boattini was seen afterwards with binoculars and
an 8-inch telescope.
There was good steady rates for the Perseids and Alpha
Capricornids, while the Antihelion source had higher then
expected activity the third hour. The best meteor seen was
a beautiful medium speed -3 magnitude sporadic bolide with
a .5 second wake seen at 7:58 UT, that was blue-green-yellow
colored. There was a strange Anihelion meteor seen at 7:43
UT that looked like a nebulous swarm.
Time (UT) LM %Obst.KCG CAP ANT SDA PAU PER NPX SPX SPO Total
05:00-06:00 6.5 0% 0 2 1 2 2 7 - - 10 24
06:00-07:00 6.6 0% 0 2 1 3 1 8 0 2 12 29
07:00-08:00 6.6 0% 1 2 3 3 0 9 2 1 12 33
FOV 5-6 UT=23.0+10
6-7 UT=00.0+10
7-8 UT=01.0+10
Magnitude Distributions (05:00-08:00 UT)
-3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 total Ave.
KCG 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1.0
CAP 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 0 0 6 1.8
ANT 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 5 3.4
SDA 0 0 0 2 0 1 4 0 1 8 2.4
PAU 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 3 2.3
PER 0 1 1 2 4 9 6 1 0 24 1.8
NPX 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 1.0
SPX 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 3 2.3
SPO 1 0 0 0 7 7 7 5 7 34 2.9
Clear Skies,
GWG
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