(meteorobs) Firball Time Change. June 14-15, WVa

[George Gliba]

I incorrectly stated the fireball time as UT, when the time I reported 
was actually EDT.
See correction below.

GWG


George Gliba wrote:
>           Screech Owl Hill Observatory, Mountain Meadows
>              Mathias, West Virginia 385710N 0785544W
>                        June 13/14 & 14/15, 2010
>
>     We were lucky to have two nights of partly clear skies to do some
> meteor observing and comet watching. I was able to get in two hours on
> June 13/14 from 4:00 to 6:00 UT under partly cloudy conditions with fair
> to good transparency. The next night, it was more cloudy and I was only 
> able to get in an hour watch from 5:25 to 6:25 UT with poor to fair (35%
> clouds) transparency and a 5.2 LM. I was looking for JLY and XDR meteors,
> but saw few, or virtually none.
>
>     However, we were more lucky to get good views of comet McNaught R2,
> which was about 5th magnitude and had a 2 degree tail in 12x63 binoculars.
> Also as a bonus, I was lucky to see a -5 magnitude fireball below Jupiter
> at 3:30 [EDT] that ended about 5 degrees above the ESE horizon, that was a
> nice blue-yellow-green color, just minutes after I first saw the comet on
> the morning of June 14th.
>
> Date    Time (UT)  LM   %Obst. ANT  JLY  XDR  SPO Total   FOV     Comments 
> 6/14/10 4:00-5:00  6.2   15%    1    1    0    7    9   various  some haze 
> 6/14/10 5:00-6:00  6.2   20%    1    1    0    5    7   various  some haze
>
> 6/15/10 5:25-6:25  5.2   35%    2    0    1    7   10   various  very hazy
>
> Magnitude Distributions (June 13/14, 4:00-6:00 UT, 18% clouds, LM=6.2)
>
>     -1   0   1   2   3   4   5  total Ave.
> ANT  0   0   1   0   0   1   0    2   2.5                  
> JLY  0   0   0   0   1   1   0    2   3.5                                      
> XDR  0   0   0   0   0   0   0    0   N/A
> SPO  0   1   0   2   4   2   3   12   3.3
>
> Magnitude Distributions (June 14/15, 5:25-6:25 UT, 35% clouds, LM=5.2)
>
>     -1   0   1   2   3   4   5  total Ave.
> ANT  0   2   0   0   0   0   0    2   1.0  
> JLY  0   0   0   0   0   0   0    0   N/A 
> XDR  0   0   0   0   1   0   0    1   3.0  
> SPO  1   0   0   3   2   1   0    7   2.1
>   
> Clear Skies,
> GWG
>
>
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