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

Pierre Martin pmartin at teksavvy.com
Fri Jul 29 20:53:34 EDT 2016


Hello Paul,

Great results!  I am finally having a clear night and I am on my out for the night!  Looking forward to seeing the summer meteor activity.  I always love observing the late July period.

Cheers!
Pierre Martin (Ottawa, Ontario)



> On Jul 29, 2016, at 1:26 PM, Paul Jones <jonesp0854 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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