(meteorobs) Aug 11/13, 2015 PER obs from North Florida - Clouds galore...; o(

[Paul Jones]

Ooops, sorry about that header!  That was supposed to be Aug. 11/12, 2015,
vice Aug 11/13, 2015.  Sleep depravation, what can I say...;o).

More later, Paul J in St. Augustine

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Paul Jones <jonesp0854 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi again meteor fans.
>      Just as I had feared, my PER session this morning from RoofTop One in
> St. Augustine was extremely cloud-challenged to say the least.  We lost
> that "blocking high" pressure dome over us yesterday and the clouds
> immediately filled the gap.  It was pretty much socked in all night for us
> right up until 4:00 a.m. local time when the clouds finally began to
> dissipate.
>      I signed on right at 0400 local and immediately found myself in the
> middle of a nice spurt of PERs!  I thought: Oh boy, here we go! and I
> decided to switch to fifteen minute counts in anticipation of a great
> show.  But then the spurt quickly disappeared and the PERs went right back
> to their sluggish ways...:o(.
>      I managed to stay mostly cloud free for 45 minutes when they began to
> come roll back in and shut down any more serious data taking type
> observations.  I hung in there for another half hour peering casually
> through the "sucker holes" and did see a few more PERs and others, but that
> was about it.
>      I've yet to crunch the data I got, but my visual impression was that
> the PERs were maybe in the 30/hour range this morning, but it was hard to
> tell for sure.  All the "usual suspect" other radiants were noticed as
> well.  I even caught a very late alpha Capricornid, along with another
> kappa Cygnid, two beautiful SDAs and a couple of nice ERIs.  Even the
> sporadics kicked in nicely this morning with 2 or 3 real nice meteors.  The
> PERs had some competition!
>
> More later when I run the numbers...
>
> Happy hunting, Paul J in St. Augustine
>
>
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