(meteorobs) Meteor Obs. July 12-13, Mathias, WVa

[George Gliba]

              Mathias, West Virginia 385710N 0785544W
                       July 11/12 & 12/13, 2010

    Again, we had a good and a fair night, of clear and partly clear
skies to do some meteor observing at Mathias, West Virginia. I was able
to get in two hours on July 11/12 from 5:23 to 7:23 UT, with clear
conditions and good transparency. The next night, July 12/13, it was
more cloudy and hazy; so I was only able to get in an hour watch from
3:55 to 4:55 UT with fair (15% clouds) transparency and a 5.8 LM.

     I was looking mostly for JLE and CAN type meteors, but the CAN
radiant was probably too low on the 13th to see any, althought I did see
good activity the night before. The best meteor seen was a 0 magnitude
CAN that had a blue-green color seen at 6:17 that left a 3 second train
the morning of July 12th. A possible early Perseid was seen at 6:42 UT
on the 12th, as it lined-up with the radiant location, but I decided to
call it a chance alignment sporadic instead.


Date    Time (UT)  LM   %Obst. ANT  JPE  CAN  SPO Total   FOV      
7/12/10 5:23-6:23  6.4    0%    3    1    3   10   17   20.6+05      
7/12/10 6:23-7:23  6.4    0%    3    0    1   10   14   21.7+05 

7/13/10 3:55-4:55  5.8   15%    2    1    0    4    7   19.7+05   


Magnitude Distributions (July 11/12, 5:23-7:23 UT, Clear, LM=6.4)

    -1   0   1   2   3   4   5  total Ave.
ANT  0   0   1   1   2   1   1    6   3.0                  
JPE  0   0   0   1   0   0   0    1   2.0
CAN  0   1   1   1   1   0   0    4   1.5
SPO  0   0   1   3   6   4   6   20   3.6

Magnitude Distributions (July 12/13, 3:55-4:55 UT, 15% clouds, LM=5.8)

    -1   0   1   2   3   4   5  total Ave.
ANT  0   0   0   0   0   2   0    2   4.0  
JPE  0   0   0   0   1   0   0    1   3.0 
CAN  0   0   0   0   0   0   0    0   N/A
SPO  0   0   0   1   1   2   0    4   3.3
  
Clear Skies,
GWG