(meteorobs) Aug 2/3, 2013 pre-max PER observations from north Florida

Robert Lunsford lunro.imo.usa at cox.net
Sat Aug 3 17:47:51 EDT 2013


Paul,

It sounds like you had a nice session despite it being cut short. Good luck tonight and thanks for sharing your data with us!

Robert Lunsford

---- Paul Jones <jonesp0854 at gmail.com> wrote: 
> Greetings list,
>      I had intended to do two full hours of observing this morning, but
> cirrus haze and then a fast moving cloud bank coming in from the west shut
> me down after 1 3/4 hours.  Still, I managed 53 total meteors in that
> timeframe (2:30 a.m. to 4:15 a.m. EDT) and I recorded my first two negative
> magnitude meteors of my 2014 PER campaign.
>     The PERs are getting into the 10 - 12 per hour range so far it seemed
> to me as of this morning, just as Bob L. predicted they would be.   I had 7
> in the first hour and 9 in the 45 minutes of the second hour.  The first
> PER of the second hour was a stunner: a multi-colored -3, darned near a
> fireball beauty of a meteor!  It flashed and flared along its path and left
> a several second long train as it shot across the Great Square of Pegasus.
> That one jolted me out of my drowsiness for sure. More like that one
> please, PERSEIDS...;o)!!
>     The other highlight of the watch was lovely golden, -1 alpha Cap that
> flashed through 20 degrees of sky in Andromeda and Cassiopeia.  Beside two
> other +1 PERs, all other meteors I saw were pretty much on the faint side.
> Here is a quick summary of the watch:
> 
> Observer Paul Jones, Location: 5 miles SW of St. Augustine, FL LM: 6.0, 10%
> cirrus cloud/haze interference, Facing: south
> 
> 0630 - 0730 UT (02:30 - 03:30 a.m. EDT) Teff: 1.0
> 7 PER
> 3 CAP
> 6 SDA
> 2 ANT
> 14 SPO
> 32 total meteors
> 
> 0730 - 0815 UT (03:30 - 04:14 a.m. EDT) Teff: .75 hour
> 9 PER
> 4 SDA
> 1 ANT
> 7 SPO
> 21 total meteors
> 
> Mags:
> PER: -3 (1), +1 (2), +2 (1), +3 (5), +4 (4), +5 (3)
> CAP: -1 (1), +3 (2)
> ANT: +2 (1), +3 (1), +4 (1)
> SDA: +2(1), +3 (6), +4 (2), +5 (1)
> SPO: +1 (1), +2 (1), +3 (9), +4 (5), +5 (5)
> 
> I'll try again in the morning, although the remains of pesky former
> Tropical Storm Dorian are parked right off the SE coast of Florida.  It
> will be touch and go for clear skies tonight!
> 
> Clear skies and many bright PERs to all,
> Paul in north Flordia



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