Canopus56 wrote:
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.
I'm really not into solo meteor observing but I was still curious so between 0100 and 0500 I went up on my roof here in Stansbury for 15 minutes at the top of each hour to watch for Perseids. 0100-0115 = 4 0200-0215 = 5 0300-0315 = 12 0400-0415 = 19 0515-0530 = 6 Seeing was less than perfect. All around the horizon up to about 45 degrees altitude some high thin cirrus pretty well blocked out all but the brightest stars and meteors. And for my last session that moved nearly to the zenith. There were two very bright ones that left long trains lasting a couple of seconds but I saw no bolides or fireballs. While all of this was going on I had my observatory scope taking pictures of an asteroid I was following for another project. At the end of the night as I was going through the images I found one that had the asteroid and a Perseid. Considering the field of view is just 18' x 26' I didn't really expect to capture any meteors. Patrick