(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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