(meteorobs) Meteor Obs. 5/18/13 - Mathias, WVa

[Bob Culbertson]

The sky is falling
Bob

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 12:43 PM, George Gliba <gliba at milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov
> wrote:

>
>          Screech Owl Hill Observatory, Mountain Meadows
>                       Mathias, West Virginia
>                          May 17/18, 2013
>
> We had a mostly cloudy night, but there was one period of fair
> to excellent transparency. I saw comet PanSTARRS with 12x63
> binoculars, a few meteors, and a very bright -10 magnitude
> fireball seen at 4:33 UT that had sonic booms 5 minutes later
> at 4:38 UT. This was AMS Event #1081, which was seen over 8
> States! There may be metorites in Pennsylvania. I was only able
> to get an hour of formal meteor observing in, but the LM reached
> 6.5 for a short period, and I also got a good look at the super
> maxumum of the Mira variable star Chi Cygni, which was at about
> 4th magnitude (slightly brighter than Eta Cygni).
>
> 5/18/13 - FOV various - facing mostly East - Obst. 30%
>
> Time (UT)  LM  Obst. ANT SPO Total     Comments
> 5:25-6:25  6.0  30%   2   4    6      partly cloudy
>
> Magn. Distributions 05/18/13, 30% obstruction
> (5:25-6:25 UT LM=6.0)
>      -1   0   1   2   3   4   5  total Ave.
> ANT  1   0   0   0   0   1   0   2    1.5
> SPO  0   0   0   1   1   0   2   4    3.7
>
> Starry Skies,
> GWG
>
>
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