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RE: (meteorobs) 2003 Perseids From San Diego CA

The Perseids in Tulsa, OK were disappointing this year.  I viewed with
about five other Astronomy Club of Tulsa members at our observatory at
96.1471   35.8307  under hazy skys.  We saw only 7 meteors between
3:00UT and 7:00UT and two of those were not Perseids.  Granted we did
have some cloud cover.  We did see one memorable Perseid at 6:03UT that
came out of the radiant and shot across the sky into Cygnus, very bright
white in color with a 2 second train brighter than Mars, estimate
-3.5Mg. The whole night was worth seeing this one even though the shower
as a whole was disappointing.  

David Stine


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Lunsford [mailto:lunro.imo.usa@coxdot net] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 12:13 PM
To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;@galaxy.atmob.org
Subject: (meteorobs) 2003 Perseids From San Diego CA

After several days of cloudy weather the skies clear neared midnight
allowing me to view what was left of the Perseid shower. Despite the
moon I
was pleasantly surprised by the show, especially after last year's
dismal
display. I have not listened to the tape yet but estimate my best rates
where near twenty per hour. The first hour seemed strong with some
tapering
off during the second hour. Activity seemed to recover a bit during the
third hour. Estimated LM was around +5.5
We will see how close to reality that really is!

Robin Gray, who lives near the same longitude as I, but much further
north
in Nevada, reports 23 Perseids per hour this morning under similar LM's.
Bright Perseids and trains were uncommon. The bright ones I did see
where
mostly orange.

Bob Lunsford

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