(meteorobs) Late Ursid Report, 12/24/07 - Mathias, WVa

[George Gliba]

                  Screech Owl Hill Observatory, Mountain Meadows
                     Mathias, West Virginia 385710N 0785544W
                               December 23/24, 2007

    We had good clear conditions, but a bright full moon, on the night 
before the night
before Christmas. I was able to get in two hours of meteor observing. 
The transparency
was good, when I had the moon behind me. There was faint but detectable 
activity from
both the Ursid (URS) and Coma Berenicid (COM) meteor showers. All the 
COMs were 4th or
5th magnitude, as were most of the Ursids, except one nice 2nd magnitude 
URS seen at 9:52
UT, and a 3rd magnitude one seen at 8:34 UT. There were few bright 
meteors, and the best
one was a nice 0 magnitide yellow-orange sporadic seen at 9:35 UT. Below 
is a short breakdown
of what meteors were observed.


  Time (UT)  LM  %Obst.  ANT   COM   URS   NPX   SPX   SPO  Total   
FOV     Comments
08:30-09:30  5.8   0%     3     3     3     2     0     3    14   
12.8+38  full moon
09:30-10:30  6.0   0%     2     3     3     0     1     7    16   
14.0+35  full moon

Magnitude Distributions (08:30-10:30 UT)

    -1   0   1   2   3   4   5  total Ave.
ANT  0   0   0   1   0   2   2    5   4.0
COM  0   0   0   0   0   3   3    6   4.5
URS  0   0   0   1   1   1   3    6   4.0
NPX  0   0   0   0   1   1   0    2   3.5
SPX  0   0   1   0   0   0   0    1   1.0
SPO  0   1   0   2   3   2   2   10   3.1

Happy New Year,
GWG