- daniel turner <outwest112@yahoo.com> wrote:
So I went out to the west desert at Lakeside to catch the Perseid shower. The radiant came right out of the double cluster and there were lots of bright ones that started 60 degrees from the radiant and stretched almost to the south horizon with a frequency was about one per minute.
Daniel, what were the overnight temps? Not being up for the drive to a true dark site, I went up to Little Mtn. Pass. It was the usual general public zoo of cars with lights on, but the seeing was good for an LRP site. Like Daniel, the shower was pretty much as advertised and as seen in prior years. The bollides and streamers all came right off the predicted radiant. I charted about 30 meteors between 2:30 and 3:00am at about the 60p/h rate. There was a short-spike of to 120p/h (2 per min) between 3:15-3:30pm. The rate stayed steady between 45-60p/h until astronomical twilight started around 5:00am. A young guy, Nick, who works the sales counter at Clark Planetarium on Sundays, showed up. With small group of 4, we had a very enjoyable evening. I ended up with a stop in high avenues to watch the ISS pass overhead at 5:52am. Saturday and Sunday morning's ISS overflights are: Saturday 13 August 2005 4h43m45s ISS Transit 4h43m45s --.-m az:323.5d NW h:85.2d Appears 4h44m00s -1.7m az: 38.6d NE h:71.9d Disappears 4h48m44s 5.3m az: 53.7d NE Partial good zenithal track on star chart Nautical twilight: 5:29am Sunrise: 6:35am Sunday 14 August 2005 5h10m29s ISS Appears 5h09m35s -0.4m az:299.3d WNW h:23.5d Transit 5h10m29s -0.3m az:332.8d NNW h:28.3d Disappears 5h15m18s 5.6m az: 48.1d NE Partial good low horizon track on star chart Nautical twilight: 5:30am Sunrise: 6:36am - Canopus56(Kurt) ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs