I went out for about half an hour early this morning, saw seven in that time. One was at least first magnitude, the others considerably dimmer. Only the bright one left a lingering train, all were fairly short streaks. Not like the Geminids at all. Not bad for a short stint from the light-polluted 'burbs. On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 2:08 AM, Wiggins Patrick <paw@digis.net> wrote:
I'm not sure what happened but it looks like the weather Goddess decided we needed clear skies tonight.
When the clouds first cleared around 10 I figured it was just a sucker hole. But here it is 4 hours later and the skies here near SPOC a completely clear.
Seeing the Milky Way straight overhead is just an added treat.
I can't say tonight's shower is the best I've seen but there have been some nice meteors. A couple leaving trains that lasted a few seconds.