(meteorobs) Aug. 8/9, 2013 PER observation for north Florida - PERs top 20 an hour!

[Pierre Martin]

Thanks for your report Paul!  We have clear skies tonight and tomorrow night up here in eastern Ontario so I'm looking forward to being out under dark skies and checking out those PER's :)

Clear skies too all for the pre-max activity,

Pierre



On 2013-08-09, at 8:03 AM, Paul Jones <jonesp0854 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings again list,
>      We had the crystal clear skies of the Bermuda High roll in over us yesterday here in north Florida and that resulted in an amazing two hour pre-max PER watch for me this morning. 
> What a difference a mere half magnitude of LM can make to the meteor counts!  All the shreds of cirrus haze that had been lingering over us for days were swept away and the sky opened up like a dirty window being cleaned to perfection! Meteors were flying everywhere!
> I had 76 meteors in all during the two hours and the PERs totaled 18 and 23, respectively.  I also had my first lovely, kappa Cygnid as well.  What an awesome session that kept me busy the entire 120 minutes!  Here's the data:
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> Aug 8/9, 2013 Observer: Paul Jones, Location: 5 miles SW of St. Augustine, Florida, LM: 6.5, clear Facing: south
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> 0315 - 0415 EDT (0715 - 0815 UT)  Teff: 1.0 No Breaks
> 18 PER
> 1 ERI
> 1 KCG
> 1 ANT
> 3 SDA
> 14 SPO
> 38 total meteors
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> 0415 - 0515 EDT (0815 - 0915 UT) Teff: 1.0 No Breaks
> 23 PER
> 2 SDA
> 1 CAP
> 1 ATR
> 11 SPO
> 38 total meteors
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> Mags:
> PER: 0 (1), +1(4), +2(8), +3(10), +4(9), +5(9)
> SDA: +2(1), +3(1), +4(1), +5(2)
> ANT: +4
> CAP: -1
> ATR: +2
> KCG: +2
> SPO: +1(2), +2(4), +3(5), +4(9), +5(5)
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> None of the PERs reached negative magnitudes for me this morning.  The highlights were all non-PERs.  The gorgeous KCG shot slowly through almost twenty degrees of sky in Pegasus and ended in a burst of sparks.   The -1 CAP near there end of the second hour shot through over 4 degrees of sky with a spreading train and a deep yellow color.  The SDAs continue to hang in there with a couple of nice off speed meteors shooting right back at the PER radiant. 
> I also had two or three long, bright SPOs come up out of the deep south far below Cetus.  Anything going on down there?  The PERS did not show much clumping effect this morning, instead they were amazingly evenly spread out through the two hour period.   The alpha Triangulid was a nice meteor very close to the projected radiant.  I'll keep an eye out for more of them.  Here's hoping the blessed Bermuda High will hold for us for a few more days!
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> More later (hopefully), Paul in north Florida
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