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
A group of us were out at Pit n Pole last night for ok conditions (no humidity, the sky was clear, slight breeze, but for this year, we decided we'd take it!). Anyway, great night and we saw several Perseids throughout the night, several were really quite large and left tails. On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Canopus56 <canopus56@yahoo.com> wrote:
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
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-- Jay Eads
KSL is running the story of SPOC being open for the shower on their website, having listed the time as "Friday from midnight until about 3 AM." Now you just know that many in the general public are going to read that, and go out there Friday night/Saturday morning, due to not understanding how the clock works. LOL!
The KSL weather guy, at one point in the morning news, clarified that it was midnight tonight/Friday morning. Hopefully, everyone got it. -A On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote:
KSL is running the story of SPOC being open for the shower on their website, having listed the time as "Friday from midnight until about 3 AM."
Now you just know that many in the general public are going to read that, and go out there Friday night/Saturday morning, due to not understanding how the clock works.
LOL!
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