(meteorobs) Perseids Sun-Mon

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Karl, 
I had very similar observations here in Central Florida  last night 
8-12/13-08. Skies were crystal clear the entire night. The highlight  was an intensely 
bright fireball with terminal burst not far off the North Pole.  Many lags in 
time with no meteors, then 2,3,4,5 in a row from Perseus and a  decent amount 
offered from the Kappa Cygnids. 
Great night overall! 
Anthony 
Central Florida, USA 

In reference to your  comment: 


I spotted another one (astmated to mag  -7) nearly at the same time 
(around 01h 40 UT, against 01h 20Ut for the  first one) which followed
nearly the same path (just less than 3 degrees  more south...) and let
a 15 seconds persistant train ! The lm was also very  good, close to 6.7
And this night, nothing as impressive, but a nice  display of Persieds, 
although I missed the possible filament, due to bad  clouds that frightened
me... But fortunately cleraed up around 1h UT.  

Some other observations :
- the Perseids of last night appeared to  me to be less bright than the two 
preceeding ones. Effect of mass  repartition of the particles, or just 
coincidence ?
- Perseids really seem  to appear in clusters, and many of them appeared by 
pair
simultaneously.  Many times, three to four Perseids appear within 2 seconds.
- as I just  watched what was occuring with the sky last night (around 21-22h 
UT,  12/08),
I see nearly no Perseid ? Meteoric gap in the activity  ?






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