(meteorobs) Quick report summary Aug 11/12 Sat eve-Sun AM (MATBE) from KC area

[Bertunit at aol.com]

Hello list,
 
Due to the extreme heat in the midwest I cancelled my vacation to SE Kansas  
but have started
using a new location about 4.5 miles SSW of Powell Gardens in Johnson  County 
MISSOURI.
Zenithal Star there is +6.5
 
Facing NE for 3:45 of observing time from 1116-0316 local time I will  
comment quickly on the 
following, and give a more IN-DEPTH report later next week on this  session.
 
93 meteors total, 16, 24, 19 (:45 min.), & 30 in the time bins. I had 4  in 
five minutes at 1046pm prior to the main session. Of course the Perseids were  
the 
dominant source, but had interesting notes otherwise.
 
Perseids are overall a smattering of bright ones with otherwise slightly  
below average main
population index.  I had a -5, -4, -3, -2, and just a few -1 to  +1's.  Gold 
with a couple Reddish-Orange ones the vast majority on the  brighter ones.
 
I had a few Kappa Cygnids, one slow fragmenting one from Ursa Major early  in 
the eve., one Lacertid candidate, several Delta Aquarids (missing a negative  
mag. one that two other observers both saw), and had  0 mag. and a -4  
beautiful Alpha Capricornids that I believe might have been the meteor seen by  Dr. 
Eric Flescher's group at the Louisburg KS observatory, which probably lined  
up with the K Cygnid radiant for them but was a definite Alpha Capricornid from 
 my site further NE. (I am in Lenexa KS with my observing logs still E of 
Lone  Jack MO currently resting and watching the mesoscale T-storm complex in E  
Nebraska late pm on the 12th Sunday.) ANT meteors were few, I think I had  
three.
 
Perseid highlight was near the end of the first hour when everyone was  
commenting on lack of bright ones,
and a 0 mag. followed one second later by a -4 sped thru Pegasus with both  
leaving trains of 1.5 sec. and 6 seconds.  The -5 terminal bursting yellow  
Perseid was I believe just after the -4 Alpha Cap at 1229am very low in the N  
sky and if Paul Martsching was action up in Iowa would have been in the SW sky  
for him in Iowa.
 
Summary - fairly LOW Perseid rates, with qualtiy members interspersed in  the 
show, but dimmer overall this year with the main index.  



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