(meteorobs) Meteor Obs. 6/08/08 - Mathias, WVa

[George Gliba]

         Screech Owl Hill Observatory, Mountain Meadows
            Mathias, West Virginia 385710N 0785544W
                       June 07/08, 2008

   We had partly cloudy to mostly cloudy observing conditions
this past Saturday/Sunday morning. In the evening I was able
to see a good pass of the ISS, which showed as a nonstellar
object in 12x63 binoculars.

   Later, I was able to observe a few meteors for 1.33 hours
with fairly good transparency from 2:28 to 3:48 UT. There
were two possible Xi Draconids that were spotted. One seen at
3:32 was the best meteor of the session, which was nice -2
magnitude one, that had a blue-green color. The other lined
up with both the JLY and XDR radiants, but I called it a XDR
because it was closer to that radiant.

   I saw two meteors from both the SAG and OSC radiants, but
I called them all ANT. One strange slow sporadic seen at 2:47
had a large orange sherical head, and a tail. The clouds were
too much after 3:48 UT; so I was forced to quit.

  Time (UT)  LM   %Obst. THE  DRA  ANT  SPO Total FOV Comments
02:28-03:28  6.3   10%    1    1    3    4    9  19+38  haze 
03:28-03:48  6.4   30%    0    1    1    3    5   var.   -

Magnitude Distributions (02:28-03:48 UT)
    -2  -1   0   1   2   3   4   5  total Ave.
THE  0   0   0   0   1   0   0   0    1   2.0
DRA  1   0   0   0   0   1   0   0    2   1.0
ANT  0   0   0   1   1   2   0   0    4   2.2
SPO  0   0   0   1   0   1   3   2    7   3.6

Clear Skies,
GWG