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

[Robert Lunsford]

George,

That is an extraordinary number of meteors for the northern hemisphere in 
late May. I wonder if your LM was actually a little bit better than +6.2?

Bob


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Gliba" <gliba at milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov>
To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>; "Mark Davis" 
<meteors at comcast.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 11:07 AM
Subject: (meteorobs) Meteor Obs. 05/24/09 - Mathias, WVa


>
>      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