(meteorobs) Aug 11/12 Perseid max results from north Florida - Great show indeed!

[Paul Jones]

Here's a quick summary of the hourly totals I had this morning from the
roof of my house, here in St. Augustine:

0234 - 0334 EDT (0634 - 0734 UT) Teff: 1.0, Z.S. 6.5 Sky conditions: clear,
Facing: south, CFOV: center of great Square of Pegasus
42 PER, 3 SDA, 1 KCG, 8 SPO - 54 total meteors

0334 - 0434 EDT (0734 - 0834 UT) Teff: 1.0, Z.S. 6.2 Sky conditions: Clear,
Facing south, CFOV: center of Great Square of Pegasus
49 PER, 1 KCG, 1 CAP, 1 ANT, 6 SPO - 58 total meteors

(0434 - 0450: 16 minute break)

0450 - 0550 EDT (0850 - 0950 UT) Teff: 1.0 Z. S. - 5.8 Sky Conditions:
Clear, 10% moonlight, Facing southwest. CFOV: Central Aries
62 PER, 1 ANT, 8 SPO - 71 total meteors

Over all totals:  3 hours Teff, 153 PER, 2 KCG, 3 SDA, 1 CAP, 2 ANT, 22 SPO
- 183 total meteors.

Full breakdown into 15 minute bins and magnitude distribution, colors and
train percentages to follow.

Clear skies, Paul




On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Paul Jones <jonesp0854 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetign again all,
>      Mother Nature smiled brightly on me this morning as she swept the
> skies clear of all clouds starting about 0230 Local Time and I had three
> hours of pristine conditions to view a mighty impressive Perseid
> performance indeed!   I recorded full data in fifteen minute Bins until
> around 0600 Local Time and have yet to decipher fully, but the PERs seemed
> to be hitting in the 50/hour range, I believe with lots of gorgeous
> meteors.  I did not get a fireball this morning though, but I did have a
> bunch of beautiful bright PERs and some long lasting trains.
> They would come in bunches of four or five quick hitting in a few seconds,
> followed by lulls of a few minutes.  I had two sets of perfectly
> simultaneous PERs as well.    Like Bob L, reported yesterday, I also had
> two lovely members of the Kappa Cygnid radiant.  The brisk pace of the
> activity kept me busy getting down all the data!  Full report to follow,
> got a bunch of numbers to crunch...;o).  Hope everyone got to see what was
> a GREAT show!
>
> Clear skies to all, Paul in north Florida
>
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