[meteorite-list] Perseids 2006 ?

From: Chris Peterson <clp_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Aug 13 18:49:00 2006
Message-ID: <02e701c6bf2a$9ed81210$2721500a_at_bellatrix>

Hi Bob-

Wow, not my experience at all. I only discarded about 5 obvious
sporadics from the 95 meteors collected over three nights (70 of those
from the night of Aug 11/12). Normally I'd have around 20, but the poor
skies limited detections to bright meteors, which were mostly Perseids.

Because of bad weather, most of my images were collected between about
2am and 5am, so there wasn't much movement of the radiant. Consequently,
the radiant is very obvious in the image I linked earlier (
http://www.cloudbait.com/science/perseid2006.html ).

I fell off the meteorobs list a while back for some reason; if you'd
like, feel free to post the above link there. This year appears to be
above average for the Perseids once you factor in the combination of a
bright moon and bad weather.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Verish" <bolidechaser_at_yahoo.com>
To: "Meteorite-list Meteoritecentral"
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Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 4:28 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Perseids 2006 ?


Hello Tom, Robert, and List,

Attempted to observe the Perseid shower from the Los
Angeles area, but even after taking into account the
moon light, marine layer haze, and other light
pollution this year's shower was still a decidely weak
display.

Our meteor counts were consistent with other reports
from profession observers around the world in that the
number of Perseids were roughly equal to the number of
Sporadic meteors counted for the same time periods.

Here is an example of one of those reports:
<http://lists.meteorobs.org/pipermail/meteorobs/2006-August/004570.html>

In prior years I've always observed the "sporadics" to
only total a small fraction of the count of Perseids.
This year, other than a couple "Earthgrazing"
Perseids, the more noteable meteors were either a
Sporadic or a fireball out of one of the 5 OTHER
meteor shower radiants that were occurring at that
same time.

<http://lists.meteorobs.org/pipermail/meteorobs/2006-August/004542.html>

Regards,
Bob V.
Received on Sun 13 Aug 2006 06:48:39 PM PDT