(meteorobs) July 28/29 2016 observation summary from North Florida - An unforgettable all-nighter!

[Paul Jones]

Thank you, Paul. My run of good weather luck down here never ceases to
amaze me, although I have had to work pretty hard for it lately...;o).
Hope you can get out some soon, there is so much going on up there right
now!  The PERs seem set to really rock and roll for us from what I am
seeing from them so far!  The CAPs , as well as the SDAs, are popping real
well, too!

Best of luck, Paul J

On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Paul Zeller <pzeller1966 at gmail.com> wrote:

>   I'm thrilled that you're getting such results in Florida, Paul, and a
> bit jealous! I've finally found a great observing site here and I've been
> anxious to get out there, especially now that the Moon is less interfering.
> But conditions have been horrible here ... clouds, rain, and / or fog night
> after night. Hopefully, next week I can get some data as the Perseids are
> on the rise and the Delta Aquariids decline. My job is sending me out of
> town during the best week of the Perseids, unfortunately!
>
>   Paul Z
>   Indianapolis, IN, USA
>
> On Jul 29, 2016 12:35 PM, "Paul Jones" <jonesp0854 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings again all,
>     Once again our skies locally were solid overcast after darkness fell
> last night and remained so until well after midninght.  It looked hopeless
> for observing, but being the intrepid die-hard that I am, I ventured dawn
> to Matanzas Inlet anyway.
>
>      Once there, I had to wait for over an hour and a half for skies to
> begin to clear, but they finally did and once they did, it didn't take long
> for the sky (and Earthly) show to begin.  And what a show it was all the
> way around, all the way to dawn's early light!!
>
>      I have yet to decipher all the notes for the morning, but here are a
> few of the more memorable highlights of the session:
>
> - a stunning minus 5, turquoise sporadic fireball skimming along the NW
> horizon
> -  a -2 magnitude alpha Capricornid
> -  a couple of - 1 magnitude South delta Aquariids (SDAs) and an SDA
> observed SDA rate that approached 20 per hour!
> - numerous bright and colorful Perseids - two of them reaching -1 in
> magnitude
> - A total of over 80 counted and casually observed meteors
> - another nice shared observing session with fellow ACAC member Jeff Corder
> - a magnificent and unexpected view of Aldebaran being occulted by the 24%
> sunlit waning gibbous moon
> -  the opportunity to play "Good Samaritan" to a group of Matanzas Inlet
> flounder fishermen who accidentally locked themselves out of their truck
>
>      It's all in a morning's "work" down at the "meteor (and flounder
> fishing) capitol of the world": - Matanzas Inlet, Florida...;o)!
>
> More to come later, when I can get to deciphering all of this stuff!
>
> a tired Paul J in North Florida
>
>
>
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