(meteorobs) Meteor Obs. 8/03/08 - Mathias, WVa

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Mon Aug 4 12:14:22 EDT 2008


George, what was the altitude and Azimuth of the 0758 Fireball? I may have witnessed the same even here in NJ. For me it was 200 degres (SSW) at 15 degrees elevation, which might put it in your range. I called it a CAP from my perspective. and timed it at 07:58:12

Wayne, High Bridge, NJ
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From: George Gliba <gliba at milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov> 

> 
> 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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