(meteorobs) Meteor Obs. 05/24/09 - Mathias, WVa

[George Gliba]

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

   We had partly cloudy to clear conditions this past Sunday
morning. Although there was some haze, I was able to get in a
couple hours of meteor observing from 5:00 to 7:00 UT.

   From 5:00 to 7:00 UT I was able to see 24 meteors, including
4 Antihelions, 2 Apex meteors (1 NPX & 1 SPX), and 18 sporadics.
I looked for, but didn't see any, Tau Herculids. The best meteor
seen was a nice 0 magnitude Antihelion, just 5 degrees above the
horizon, seen at 6:21 UT.


  Time (UT)  LM  %Obst. THE ANT NPX SPX SPO Total   FOV
05:00-06:00  6.2   0%    0   2   1   0   8   11  16.8 +05
06:00-07:00  6.2   0%    0   2   0   1  10   13  18.2 +05


Magnitude Distributions (05:00-07:00 UT - LM=6.2)

     0   1   2   3   4   5  total Ave.
THE  0   0   0   0   0   0    0   N/A
ANT  1   0   2   0   1   0    4   2.0
NPX  1   0   0   0   0   0    1   0.0
SPX  0   0   0   1   0   0    1   3.0
SPO  0   2   1   4   7   4   18   3.6

Clear Skies,
GWG