(meteorobs) Numerous and bright : Perseid 2008 !

Koen Miskotte koen.miskotte at versatel.nl
Wed Aug 13 11:01:52 EDT 2008


Hi Karl,
Congratulations! Here in the Netherlands we had the same impression of a 
really good Perseid display this year.
See my reply on Pierre Martin.
Best wishes, Koen
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karl Antier" <ka.antier at wanadoo.fr>
To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 7:58 AM
Subject: (meteorobs) Numerous and bright : Perseid 2008 !


> Hi all,
>
> Back from a small observing session, unfortunately without
> official report, due to the surpre of spotting stars after
> two days of dramatic thunderstorms...
> It was actually more than two weeks since we didn't see
> serious cloudy skies, here, in Provence (South-Eastern France).
> But on Tuesday, 11th, skies begin to cover up and thunderstorms
> made their apparition...
> Not a single star visible during the 11-12 night, and at 6h30 am,
> thus just when the Sun rised, clouds left the sky...
> To come back yesterday evening, triggering huge thunderstorms
> which hided the skies... At 3h00 am (1h UT), small holes in
> the clouds make me hope to catch parts of the shower, even if
> I didn't take my observing material. At 1h30 UT, skies were
> nearly perfect, probably close to a lm. +6.7! Wonderful!
> Perseids were very very very active!
> Nearly all of them come by cluster of two, three, four, five,
> or even six or seven in less than two or three seconds!
> I can not remember having seen so active Perseids. To give
> you an idea, I counted 35 Perseids in 15 minutes between
> (1h20 and 1h35 UT)...
> Most of them were really bright. From 1h30 UT to 3h UT,
> more than a dozen Perseids could be considered as fireballs,
> half of them as bright or brighter than -5.
> The highlight was probably the two brightest fireballs
> ocuring within 5 seconds from each other of -7 and -9
> magnitude!
> After 3h UT, rate rapidly seemed to fall... Effect of the
> rising Sun or end of a real secondary peak?
>
> Just hope now that some of you manage to catch the display!
> Clear skies!
> Karl
>
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