(meteorobs) Meteor Obs. 8/03/08 - Mathias, WVa
George Gliba
gliba at milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov
Mon Aug 4 13:00:43 EDT 2008
George Gliba wrote:
> 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
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Wayne,
I set my watch using the telephone time signals a few hours before I
observe. It is probably accurate to within a few seconds anyway, but I
generally only record my meteors to the nearest minute.
GWG
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