(meteorobs) A classic Perseid?

Arlene Carol arlene.carol at gmail.com
Tue Aug 7 15:41:19 EDT 2007


okay wayne...thanks. what do i know?? HAHAA

i'm not 'near' any city...i'm 8 hours south of istanbul and 5 hours north of
izmir.

does this help at all??

arlene

On 8/7/07, meteors at eclipse.net <meteors at eclipse.net> wrote:
>
> That sounds much more like the desciption of a kappa Cygnid.
> I love em.
> Reasons I think so:
>
> Slow.
> Perseids aren't slow.
> KCG's are.
>
> Golden color
> Of the few dozen KCG's I have seen, many were gold colored.
> I generally don't see color real well, almost all my meteors go in as
> white.
> But the KCG's are the only meteors where I've ever used the word gold.
>
> What's the nearest city so I can look at where the PER and KCG's radiants
> were.
>
> Wayne
>
>
> > Wow...i just saw the most incredible meteor of my entire viewing
> history..
> > it traversed more than 1/2 the sky in a brilliant, golden, long-train
> and
> > slow moving.
> > who could ask for a better example!?
> >
> > north to south. I think Perseus has just risen but i could be wrong.
> > it's 10pm local time here. boy, if this is a preview, i might just
> > plan to stay outside most of the next 10 nights!
> >
> > this one was super.
> >
> > i'm headed back out now..
> > hope i'm lucky..
> > hope you all are as well.
> >
> > arlene
> > south of troy
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