(meteorobs) Perseids clouded out in Alberta

[Ed Majden]

Bruce:
	Same problem at Courtenay, on Vancouver Island.  We had showers  
during the day, then it cleared for a short time in the afternoon  
just to tease you.  After dark the clouds rolled back in.  I didn't  
stay up as it didn't look like it would clear enough for  
spectroscopy.  Just checked my Sandia All-sky record and it recorded  
a big fat zero so I'm glad I didn't loose any sleep.
Ed

On 12-Aug-09, at 2:44 AM, Bruce McCurdy wrote:

> Not much luck here in central Alberta, unfortunately. We had a nice  
> big sucker hole around 8 p.m. MDT but it started to fill in around  
> sunset. There was broken cloud thereafter, featuring much more  
> cloud than breaks. I did spot a -1 beauty span the Little Dipper  
> from my front yard. A little before 2 a.m. MDT (8h UT), I spotted a  
> possible sucker hole to the north so drove outside the city in that  
> direction with my wife in a valiant if vain attempt to observe the  
> predicted activity surge. We found a fairly decent spot with no  
> direct light trespass and a clear view to the north, but alas the  
> hole filled in very quickly. Over ~40 minutes of observing, Anna  
> saw 4 meteors including 2 bright ones which were *just* outside of  
> my field of view. I saw just 1 certain Perseid and one suspect  
> through clouds.
>
> Oh well, as the former Edmontonian Wayne Gretzky  famously  
> remarked, "100% of the shots you don't take, don't score a goal".  
> At least we tried.
>
> Off to Saskatchewan bright and early (ugh), and will try to do some  
> post-peak observing from Cypress Hills Dark Sky Preserve. It may,  
> however, take a while to report.
>
> Bruce
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