(meteorobs) casual Perseids central Texas

[Alex Daskalakis]

Hello Ed and all, good afternoon

I saw one of those sporadic "slow-moving, sparks-ejecting" meteors but into
the East, last year, during the Perseid show. It was very slow, 4-5s moving
in a NE-E direction originating close to Eridanid and was spitting sparks,
as you say it.

The "sparks" comment got my memory fired up..

Best regards,
Alex SV1NZX

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Ed Cannon <edcannonsat at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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