Hello Robert, All,
After a day of hunting, we spent the early evening tonight stargazing in the relative darkness (compared to Los Angeles) of the Mojave.
All in all, I wasn't particularly wowed or disappointed. We watched from sundown until a bit after the moon rose (about 8-10pm), and I'd have to say that the best display was within half an hour of darkness.
It was pretty spotty - started with several bright white meteors within a few minutes, along with a pretty spectacular orange one that crossed a good portion of the sky, but overall it wasn't that great. There were periods of ten or so minutes without a single meteor separated by either single meteors or occasionally two in a minute or so.
Trains tended to be a good length, and there was one in particular that was rather interesting. I only saw the very bright flash off to my right, but Peter said that the flash preceded a very long and fairly bright meteor. I'm at a bit of a loss to describe exactly how this occurred, unless it was really two meteors - one coming right at us (the flash) and then another to create the long train that he saw.
Other than that, probably three sporadics (way off course for Perseids), and one very bright satellite which we thought could've been bright enough to have been the international space station.
Max temp. by the thermometer was 110 F - not pleasant, but could've been much worse, as a few of you fellow hunters might know ;)
Regards,
Jason
On 8/13/06, Robert Woolard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi List,
Any members have any reports about the Perseids this
year??? (Socked in by clouds here in AR this time
around.)
Best wishes,
Robert Woolard
IMCA #8103
http://www.portalesvalleymeteorites.com
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
http://mail.yahoo.com
______________________________________________
Meteorite-list mailing list
Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
