(meteorobs) Meteor Obs. 5/11/08 - Mathias, WVa

[George Gliba]

         Screech Owl Hill Observatory, Mountain Meadows
            Mathias, West Virginia 385710N 0785544W
                       May 10/11, 2008

   We had partly cloudy to mostly clear observing conditions
this past Saturday/Sunday morning. In the evening I was able
to see comet W1 Boattini with 12x63 binoculars. Later, I was
able to observe meteors for two hours with good transparency
from 5 to 7 UT. Six Eta Lyrids were seen, as were five alpha
Scorpids (Antihelions). The best meteor was of -1 magn. seen
at 6:03 from the Northern Apex source. The sporadic rate was
higher than expected the second hour.


  Time (UT)  LM   %Obst. ANT  ELY  NPX  SPX  SPO Total FOV
05:00-06:00  6.4    0%    2    3    0    0    6   11  19+30
06:00-07:00  6.2    0%    3    3    1    2   11   20  20+30


Magnitude Distributions (05:00-07:00 UT)
    -1   0   1   2   3   4   5  total Ave.
ANT  0   0   1   0   4   0   0    5   2.6
ELY  0   0   1   0   2   3   0    6   3.2
NPX  1   0   0   0   0   0   0    1  -1.0
SPX  0   0   0   1   0   1   0    2   3.0
SPO  0   0   1   1   5   6   4   17   3.6

Clear Skies,
GWG