Well from the good ole US of A this morning 30 minutes north of Phoenix AZ I
sat on Lake Pleasant at 02:00 and watched approximately 10-20 streaks a
minute until sunrise at 06:00. Some really nice meteors, some breaking into
two before burning out. I am sure if we were a little farther from the city
lights we would have seen more. Trouble is 5 years ago the urban sprawl we
now call a city was 20 miles south and not polluting the skies so bad.
It was a wonderful clear night, air temp 84, water temp 86.6, largemouth and
striped bass were cooperative and completed the morning by stretching our
lines. All in all not a bad morning watching the Perseids and fishing.
Mark M.
Phoenix AZ
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Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 3:01 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] 2007 Perseids
Hello All,
After I had seen my first Perseid, I got mail from Alex (Alex I will get
back to you
tomorrow!) and he was not quite sure if I had really seen a Perseid. Well,
it might
have been a "spoardic meteor" but I have just checked back on one of my
star
charts. That "bright, thick, orange streak" went right through the
"keystone" of the
constellation Hercules, and, tracing back this flight path on my star
chart leads me
right to the constellation Perseus!
In other words, I should have written NE > SW instead of N > S! Mea culpa!
Anyway, what was much more perplexing , was (a) the color of the meteor,
(b)
its thick streak, and (c) its relatively low speed!
Let's wait for the reports of the more experienced observers (Bob Verish,
and
others) as their observations may throw more competent light on what this
year's
Perseids are like!
Perseidically yours,
Bernd
P.S: Weather conditions are deteriorating, hazy skies,
seeing mediocre, a lot of humidity in the air now :-(
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