(meteorobs) Perseids success!!!!!!

Francisco Ocaña albireo3000 at yahoo.es
Thu Jul 31 08:07:49 EDT 2008


Jure, Koen,

Also in video. A short enhacement was detected around 01h45 UT (August 
13th), with 10 Perseids in 30 minutes ( 3 at 01h38m UT). This rate is 
about the double of the rest of the night.

Lot of perseids!

Paco Ocaña

Jure Atanackov escribió:
> Koen,
>
> I have yet to decode my tape, but I was under the same impression of a short, 
> but *very* pronounced enhancement of activity around 1h30m UT (August 13th). 
> There were many negative magnitude Perseids at the time. After 2h UT the 
> activity seemed to decrease.
>
> Clear skies!
> Jure A.
>
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 at 23:23:05, Koen Miskotte wrote:
>
>   
>> Hello,
>> Just written out my data of 12/13 augustust. 388 meteors observed in just 
>> 3,58 observing time. As I take a look to my raw counts, it seems to me that 
>> there is a short peak in activity. Also on the IMO website you can see a 
>> peak in activity around 1:20 UT with an ZHR of 118. And we observed an 
>> unusual number of bright Perseids.
>>
>> According to IMO on 13 august 2008 at 21:18 UT  (http://www.imo.net/)
>> ZHR 23:35 75,
>> ZHR 1:20 118
>> ZHR 4:25   74
>>
>> My raw observations:
>> http://umdb.urania.be/v2/obsview/view.php?id=3565
>>
>>
>> Best wishes, Koen
>>
>>
>>     





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