(meteorobs) Meteor Obs. 12/30/08 - Mathias, WVa

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I cannot think of ANYTHING more unfortunate than that George. I hope 
collimation & drive was not permanently damaged.  -Larry




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Gliba" <gliba at milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov>
To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>; "Mark Davis" 
<meteors at comcast.net>
Sent: 2008/12/31 08:26
Subject: (meteorobs) Meteor Obs. 12/30/08 - Mathias, WVa


>
>      Screech Owl Hill Observatory, Mountain Meadows
>         Mathias, West Virginia 385710N 0785544W
>                   December 29/30, 2008
>
>   We had a very windy night two nights ago in Mathias,
> West Virginia, but the transparency was very good. We
> had some wind gusts to 60 mph, and one gust blew our
> 8-inch Celestron down, breaking part of it, and putting
> it out of service for the night. Luckly, we got to see
> comet C/2006 W3 Christensen just before the accident.
>
>   I was able to get in two hours of meteor observing
> from 8 to 10 UT. Activity from the Coma Berenicids was
> good, with 8 members being see. Also seen were 5 Anti-
> helions, 1 Northern Apex meteor, 3 Southern Apex meteors,
> and 30 sporadics. The best meteors were only of the 1st
> magnitude, but one 0 magnitude yellow meteor was seen at
> the western corner of my eye, but I didn't count it as I
> couldn't tell what direction it was going. At the end of
> the night I spotted comet C/2007 N3 Lulin close to beta
> Scorpii before dawn.
>
>
>  Time (UT) LM %Obst.ANT COM NPX SPX SPO Total   FOV
> 08:00-09:00 6.5  0%   3   4   1   1   16   25  09.7+12
> 09:00-10:00 6.4  0%   2   4   0   2   14   22  11.0+12
>
>
> Magnitude Distributions (08:00-10:00 UT - LM=6.45)
>
>     0   1   2   3   4   5  total Ave.
> ANT  0   0   0   3   1   1    5   3.6
> COM  0   2   3   1   2   0    8   2.4
> NPX  0   0   1   0   0   0    1   2.0
> SPX  0   0   2   1   0   0    3   2.3
> SPO  0   4   3  15   4   4   30   3.0
>
> Clear Skies,
> GWG
>
>
>
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