(meteorobs) Fwd: Electronic visual form for 2016-8-10

[Richard Kramer]

Finally back in the saddle after about two years of being frustrated 
by ill timed clouds.

Forecasts for the peak evening were grim for all of New England 
(USA), so I opted to take advantage of the last forecasted clear day 
before the Perseid peak.

This enjoyable adventure atop Dickey Mountain in NH was almost also 
frustrated. Driving north, my friends and I were watching the high 
cirrus cloud shield advancing towards our intended observing location 
much sooner than the forecast lead us to expect. Nonetheless we 
persevered. Traffic was bad, so we arrived at the trail head about an 
hour later than targeted. We hiked two miles up the trail, arriving 
at the summit of Dickey as it was beginning to get quite dark. There 
were lots of clouds. We set up, ate, and settled in hoping the clouds 
would disappear. We contented ourselves with watching for the 
satellite passes and Iridium flashes predicted (extremely accurately) 
by Heavens Above.

The clouds cleared around midnight and I went on the clock for two 
solid hours of very enjoyable logging. Temperatures were mild and 
winds were light. Rates were good, and there were a considerable 
number of really bright ones including a SPO which very briefly lit 
up the ground during a brief bright flash. Many one to three seccond 
trains were seen.

I found it fairly easy to separate the ANT from the other showers in 
that area of the sky based mainly on velocity. I did not feel 
competent to assign the members of the other showers in that area of 
the sky, so I grouped them in with the true SPO.

We awoke around dawn to see serious clouds coming in fast. We packed 
quickly and managed to begin our hike out just as the rain began. We 
had to descend many steep, slippery, lichen covered granite slabs. 
Many of them were so slick from the wet lichens that we were forced 
to bushwack around them. We returned to our car having enjoyed 
dramatic descent since we all managed to avoid injury (or worse).

>// Header section
>night           2016-08-09/10
>begin           2016-08-10 0352
>end             2016-08-10 0630
>observer        "Richard" "Kramer"
>location        71 35 24 W, 43 55 04 N
>site            "Dickey Mountain" "United States"
>reporter        "KRAMER at SRIA.COM"
>
>// Shower section
>shower  PER 046 +58
>shower  ANT
>shower  SPO
>
>// Number section
>//      Interval        RA      Dec     Teff    F       Lm 
>PER     ANT     SPO
>period  0352-0415       320     +25     0.350   1.18    5.40    C 
>3   C   1   C   1
>period  0415-0445       320     +25     0.470   1.18    5.80    C 
>2   C   1   C   4
>period  0445-0500       325     +20     0.220   1.18    5.06    C 
>3   C   0   C   2
>period  0500-0540       330     +20     0.620   1.18    5.60    C 
>4   C   1   C   2
>period  0540-0600       335     +20     0.320   1.18    5.80    C 
>1   C   0   C   1
>period  0600-0630       335     +20     0.450   1.18    5.80    C 
>8   C   1   C   0
>
>// Magnitude section
>//              Show    Interval     -6    -5    -4    -3    -2 
>-1    +0    +1    +2    +3    +4    +5    +6    +7    Tot
>distribution    PER     0352-0415     -     -     -   1.0   1.0 
>1.0     -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -    3.0
>distribution    PER     0415-0445     -     -     -     -     - 
>1.0     -     -     -     -   1.0     -     -     -    2.0
>distribution    PER     0445-0500     -     -     -     -   1.0 
>-     -   1.0     -     -   1.0     -     -     -    3.0
>distribution    PER     0500-0540     -     -     -     -     - 
>-   1.0     -   2.0   1.0     -     -     -     -    4.0
>distribution    PER     0540-0600     -     -     -     -     - 
>-     -     -     -   1.0     -     -     -     -    1.0
>distribution    PER     0600-0630     -     -     -     -     - 
>1.0     -   2.0   2.0   2.0   1.0     -     -     -    8.0
>distribution    ANT     0352-0415     -     -     -     -     - 
>-     -     -     -   1.0     -     -     -     -    1.0
>distribution    ANT     0415-0445     -     -     -     -     - 
>-     -     -   1.0     -     -     -     -     -    1.0
>distribution    ANT     0500-0540     -     -     -     -     - 
>-     -     -     -   1.0     -     -     -     -    1.0
>distribution    ANT     0600-0630     -     -     -     -     - 
>-     -   1.0     -     -     -     -     -     -    1.0
>distribution    SPO     0352-0415     -     -     -     -     - 
>-     -   1.0     -     -     -     -     -     -    1.0
>distribution    SPO     0415-0445     -     -     -     -     - 
>-     -   1.0   1.0   1.0   1.0     -     -     -    4.0
>distribution    SPO     0445-0500     -     -     -     -     - 
>-     -     -   1.0     -   1.0     -     -     -    2.0
>distribution    SPO     0500-0540     -     -     -     -     - 
>-     -     -     -   2.0     -     -     -     -    2.0
>distribution    SPO     0540-0600     -     -   1.0     -     - 
>-     -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -    1.0