I. Miscellanous SLC Tribune Article Today Sheena MacFarland, Utahns might be able to catch a falling star this week SLC Trib 8-11-2010 http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/50087211-76/sky-thursday-wiggins-able.html... Reminder: There also is a five wide-angle planet conjunction and photo op on the western horizon at sunset. http://heliophysics.org/headlines/y2010/images/perseids/skymap_12aug10.gif II. Perseids Links: IMO Visual Live Meteor Count Perseids 2010 http://www.imo.net/live/perseids2010/ "The Perseids are one of the most exciting and dynamic meteor showers; producing fast-moving shooting stars throughout July and August. Based on IMO observations from recent years, we expect the "normal" peak of ~100 meteors per hour to occur in the night of August 12-13 between 18h and 7h Universal Time." IMO Shower Radiant Map http://www.imo.net/docs/images/per_map.png IMO Perseids Live Summary and Main Page http://www.imo.net/ IMO Twitter Live Updates http://twitter.com/IMOmeteors RMOB Live Radio Reflection Page http://217.169.242.217/rmob/pages/liveradiometeorpage.php Air Force Space Command Live Meteor Radio Reflection Live http://spaceweatherradio.com/ Brower's BC Canada Live Radio Reflection Page http://members.shaw.ca/jbrower/index.html III. Observing Report Observing Report: Little Mtn. SLC, UT NELM to northeasteast by east: 5.5. Observed 1 steradian bracketing Algol to Jupiter for 12:45am to 1:30am 8/11/2010. Max estimated expected visual count based on IMO current ZLM (for 6.0 ZLM) of approx. 25 with ending Algol altitude of 30 degrees: 25*cos(30 deg)*(1 str/2*pi str)= 3.4 Observed related to Perseid radiant: 12:55am MST mag -1, 10 deg tail above Hamil traveling south. 01:05am MST mag 4, 10 deg tail UMa and Cass, outside observing zone 01:13am MST mag 2, 5 deg tail above (in alt) Cass, outside observing zone Peripheral vision caught three near NELM limit in the observing zone but the meteors were too faint to call as a confirmed sighting. - Kurt