(meteorobs) Perseids success!!!!!!

Fri Aug 15 00:43:57 EDT 2008

I too have a curious detonating fireball(Bolide) capture on two systems 
wherein a persistant train(?) appears AFTER detonation and not before. The 
train(?) hangs in the air like particles and in what appears to be in short 
segments or groups with a glowing that remains for quite some seconds. 
Meanwhile a hot, bright object without any apparent variation in ablation 
light or velocity continued on after the initial detonation(?) a short 
distance before the light extinguished suddenly.

This event occured "roughly" in the early morning hours of this morning at 
5:34 AM PDT or in Universal date/time: 20080813_12:34:00 and was near my 
N.E. horizon with an apparent Northerly direction of travel (upward) in my 
camera system.

I will examine it more closely and submit photos when my Sentinel & HandyAvi 
imaging is finished over this period of meteor activity. I did accidently 
overwrite my nightly capture file for the night before the Perseid peak so 
it is lost and only a small period of that nights captures may be on file 
from Sentinel. Quite a few bright fireballs from both Northern and Southern 
skies here over these many days.

YCSentinel,
Yuba City, California.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pierre Martin" <dob14.5 at sympatico.ca>
To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: 2008/08/14 17:59
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Perseids success!!!!!!

> Hi Koen and all,
>
> It's great to hear that you had such a great night with the peak!
> I'm curious of your persistent train photos too.  Here's my photos
> from the morning of August 12.  All photos where I found meteors are
> stacked into the following 3 images.  These two were taken with Canon
> 30D, 16-35mm lens (at 20mm f/2.8), ISO 640...
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/13845235@N03/2760209479/sizes/o/
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/13845235@N03/2761054148/sizes/o/
>
> ... and this one was done with Canon Rebel, 35mm lens f/2.0, ISO 800...
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/13845235@N03/2760210067/sizes/o/
>
> A few pics of our observing site, and the DSLR camera platform, after
> we woke up the morning after...
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/13845235@N03/2759747269/sizes/o/
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/13845235@N03/2759748019/sizes/o/
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/13845235@N03/2759747763/sizes/o/
>
> Clear skies!
> - Pierre
>
>
>
>
> On 13-Aug-08, at 10:56 AM, Koen Miskotte wrote:
>
>> Hi Pierre,
>> Great story and congratulationas. I'm curious of your photo's.
>> I'm just back from a small journey to the eastern parts of our
>> country (The
>> Netherlands) at the public observatory Comos near the small village
>> Lattrop
>> ( it lies about 200 meters of the Dutch/German border). After some
>> rain and
>> thunder we had a clear sky between 22:30 and 04:20 UT. What a great
>> show the
>> Perseids give! Many bright Perseids, amongst them a-4 , -5 and a
>> really
>> brilliant -10 Perseid. It left a persistent train of 60 seconds
>> visible for
>> the naked eye. Unfortunately this big meteor appeared just outside
>> the field
>> of view of my Canon 40D, but I was fast enought to aim the camera
>> on the
>> persistent  train and take many pictures of it.
>> And during 13 images of 45 seconds the train is easely visisble.
>> Later I
>> will try to make a movie of it.
>> I think I did see 300-350 meteors this night. In think it is the best
>> Perseid show since 1993 (outburst 11/12: ZHR 300) and 2004 (a small
>> outburst
>> of weak meteors with a ZHR of 180-200, later that night many bright
>> meteors).
>> I also hope to catch some metors in the coming night!
>> Best wishes, Koen
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Pierre Martin" <dob14.5 at sympatico.ca>
>> To: <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 10:58 PM
>> Subject: (meteorobs) Perseids success!!!!!!
>>
>>
>>> Ivo Leupi and I had a terrific night of Perseids observing /
>>> photography.  We travelled 2 hours west of Ottawa within a deep dark
>>> area, near Bon Echo Park, where a clear hole was predicted to occur
>>> around midnight.
>>>
>>> What a night!!!  The forecast lived up to expectation.  With wide-
>>> open skies approaching 7th mag, the two of us must have totaled a few
>>> hundreds of meteors until dawn.  It was quite a decent shower.  Best
>>> were a couple of mag -4 to -5 fireballs that Ivo's camera captured
>>> well.  I took notes of the clumping effects as well.  I still need to
>>> review my photos to see if I've managed to capture anything.
>>>
>>> I'll listen to the tape, crunch some numbers and report Perseids in
>>> more details tomorrow.  For now, I need a nap.  Might possibly head
>>> to Moose Creek for a bit more meteor observing late tonight, if the
>>> weather cooperates.
>>>
>>> - tired Pierre
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