(meteorobs) casual Perseids central Texas

Ed Cannon edcannonsat at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 13 09:16:05 EDT 2015


It has been a long time. I went to Mt. Bonnell, 

a local urban hilltop park. I looked north at 

about RA 1:00 to 2:00 Dec +55 from 10:05 to 

11:05 UTC. Limiting magnitude about +4.5 almost 

until I quit. (I couldn't see phi Per [1:44 

+50:43] anymore at the end.) There was some very
thin cirrus haze, probably less than 5 percent,
gradually getting thinner. I had maybe 5 percent 

obscured by trees.


I saw 20 Per and 2 Spo. One of the Perseids was
a -5 or -6. One Spo was weirdly slow, taking 

at least six seconds to cross from west to 

northeast, orange and with a trail and short 

sparks all the way across. The first Per was a 

flash that lit up the ground, and I looked up 

and saw a glowing persistant trail that lasted 

at least two or three seconds.  The next one was 

the -6. Then it was very quiet for about 20-30 

minutes until a cluster of about eight or ten 

occurred in just a few minutes around 10:40-50
UTC, more or less.


One weird satellite -- two extremely bright -6

flashes but otherwise invisible, eastbound. Hope 

I can find out what it was.


Ed Cannon
Austin, Texas, USA
location approx. 30:17 N, 97:45 W.
edcannonsat c/o yahoo.com


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