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

[George Gliba]

meteoreye at comcast.net wrote:
> 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
> -------------- Original message -------------- 
> 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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Hi Wayne,

   From Mathias, WVa, the 07:58 UT meteor was in the ESE (~100 azimuth)
and was about 50 deg. altitude coming from an area closer to Altair than
alpha Cap.  However, incredibly there was a meteor I missed the same minute
behind me as I saw a yellow flash on my hands and sleeping bag, from a 
bright
meteor I probably missed in the West or SW, that occured just seconds 
after I
saw my -3 magn. meteor. That may have been your fireball!

Clear Skies,
GWG