(meteorobs) Perseids from South Carolina

[meteors at comcast.net]

I returned this morning from a 3-day camping trip with one of my
daughters to observe the Perseids. We were successful the first two
mornings, but were rained out this morning. On the morning of August
12th we had to deal with a bit of thin clouds interfering with our
observing. The morning of August 13th started with perfectly clear
skies, but a few minutes after 3 am local time, clouds moved in and
obscured our FOV for 45 minutes. Once they departed we resumed observing.

My overall impression of the shower was that it was a bit below average,
but since this was this daughter's first meteor observing session, I
thoroughly enjoyed it. I kept the mornings short, to 2 hours in length
which I believe made it more enjoyable for her. My data is listed below.

I have quite a few reports that have been sent in and hope to begin
archiving/publishing them today. After a couple days, if you still
haven't seen your observation published, please email me to confirm that
I did receive it. Thanks to everyone that sent reports in!

-- 
Mark Davis, South Carolina, USA
meteors at comcast.net
namn at namnmeteors.org

North American Meteor Network
http://www.namnmeteors.org



// Header section
night    	 2010-08-11/12
begin    	 2010-08-12 0640
end      	 2010-08-12 0850
observer	 "Mark" "Davis" "DAVMA"
site    	 "Givhans Ferry State Park" "United States"

// Shower section
Shower  ANT 332 -09
Shower  KCG 284 +58
shower  PER 047 +57
shower  SDA 350 -13
shower  SPO

// Number section
//     Interval   RA  Dec Teff   F   Lm   ANT KCG PER SDA SPO
Period 0640-0740 015 +05 1.000 1.05 5.49   1   0   6   1   4
Period 0750-0850 015 +05 1.000 1.05 5.56   0   0  13   0   6


// Header section
night    	 2010-08-12/13
begin    	 2010-08-13 0626
end      	 2010-08-13 0849
observer	 "Mark" "Davis" "DAVMA"
site    	 "Givhans Ferry State Park, SC" "United States"
reporter	 "meteors at comcast.net"

// Shower section
Shower ANT 333 -09
shower KCG 285 +59
shower PER 048 +58
shower SDA 351 -12
shower SPO

// Number section
//      Interval  RA  Dec Teff   F   Lm   ANT KCG PER  SDA SPO
Period 0626-0704 015 +05 0.630 1.00 5.56   0   0   10   0   4
period 0749-0849 015 +05 1.000 1.05 5.80   0   0   21   0   5