Observer: Larry B. Smith
Date/Time: 1-23-03/06:35 EST (11:35UT)
Location: Mt. Joy Twp., Pa. 
Site Elevation: ~130 ft. AMSL
Sky Darkness: waning gibbous moon (20 days 3 hours), ~64%
Instrument: 12.5-inch, D & G Optical Dobsonian
Magnification: 200X
Weather: partly cloudy (cirrus clouds), 6 F, light wind with moderate gusts.
Seeing: good to very good.
Object: Lunar sunset ray 74 deg. North and 11.5 deg. East (Rukl Chart #4)
The sunset ray originated from the break in Meton s western wall and extended to the east for approximately 60 km. 

Meton Lunar Ray Confirmation Report

I helped a friend wring out his new ITE DeepSky Pro video camera on the
night of 2003/2/9 UT.  The location was north of Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania.  The relative humidity was a miserable 65% and the
temperature was -14 degrees Celsius or less.  All told I spent about 5
hours outside imaging the moon, Jupiter, and numerous deep-sky objects
using the camera and a 12" Meade LX200 SCT working at f/6.3.  

The Meton Lunar Sunrise Ray (Rukl #4) was seen using a 12.5mm
orthoscopic eyepiece (154x) but not on the video monitor or the
videotape upon playback.  Tony Donnangelo had called us earlier to alert
us to this new lunar ray. 

Dave Mitsky