(meteorobs) Meteor Obs. 1/13/08 - Mathias, WVa

[George Gliba]

                  Screech Owl Hill Observatory, Mountain Meadows
                     Mathias, West Virginia 385710N 0785544W
                               January 12/13, 2008

    We had partly cloudy conditions in the early part of the night, 
followed
by a nice partial clearing for most of the night. Comet 17/P Holmes was 
still
easy to see as a large cloud about 4th magnitude and 45 arcminutes in 
extent.
Comet 8/P Tuttle was an easy object with binoculars, but just below 
naked-eye
visibility. I was able to do a couple hours of meteor observing.

   Antihelion activity was good, but only slight activity was seen from 
the COM
radiant. One possible January Coma Berenicid (JCO) was seen, and several 
Apex
meteors were seen. The best meteor seen was a beautiful -2 magnitude ANT 
seen
at 6:25 UT. Below ia a summary of what meteors were observed.


  Time (UT)  LM  %Obst.  ANT   COM   JCO   NPX   APX   SPX   SPO  
Total   FOV    
06:22-07:22  6.2  10%     3     1     1     1     0     0     7    13   
11.0+25 
07:22-08:22  6.5   5%     3     1     0     2     1     2    11    20   
12.0+25

Magnitude Distributions (06:22-08:22 UT)

    -2  -1   0   1   2   3   4   5  total Ave.
ANT  1   0   0   0   1   2   2   0   6    2.2
COM  0   0   0   0   0   0   0   2   2    5.0
JCO  0   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   1    4.0
NPX  0   0   1   0   2   0   0   0   3    1.3
APX  0   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   1    4.0
SPX  0   0   0   2   0   0   0   0   2    1.0
SPO  0   0   1   0   1   5   5   6  18    3.7

Clear Skies,
GWG