(meteorobs) Meteor Obs. 01/24/09 - Mathias, WVa

[George Gliba]

      Screech Owl Hill Observatory, Mountain Meadows
         Mathias, West Virginia 385710N 0785544W
                  January 23/24, 2009

  We had partly cloudy conditions, but there were clear
periods that allowed me to get in two hours of meteor
observing from 6:11 to 8:11 UT last Saturday morning.
We were also able to do some observing with an 8-inch
SCT Celestron, which included comet 144/P Kushida near
the Hyades in Taurus. Later, just before dawn, I also
observed comet Lulin N3 with 12x63 binoculars.

  There was good activity seen from the Antihelion source,
with 9 being seen. The best meteor of the watch was a nice
blue-green colored -2 magnitude ANT with a 2 second train
seen at 7:08 UT. It was beautiful. Below is the resulting
data summary.

  Time (UT)  LM  %Obst. ANT NPX SPX SPO Total    FOV
06:11-07:11  6.3   15%   4   0   0   7   11    various
07:11-08:11  6.5   15%   5   3   0  10   18    various


Magnitude Distributions (06:11-08:11 UT - LM=6.4)

    -2  -1   0   1   2   3   4   5  total Ave.
ANT  1   0   1   0   1   1   2   3    9   3.6
NPX  0   0   0   1   1   1   0   0    3   2.0   
SPX  0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0    0   N/A     
SPO  0   0   0   2   0   3   4   8   17   3.9

Clear Skies,
GWG