Hello List and Bernd,
For the skies over the greater Las Vegas area they were perfect. I was
above the 6000' ft area
at Mt. Charleston, NV. from 2215 until 0415 and witnessed 240 meteors,
falling from all directions.
Most of them from the radiant, but a few came from behind me, not to mention
the far extreme
sides, towards the horizon. The shower peaked right on schedule about 0200
here, with a maximum
of 67 meteors falling from 0200 to 0300hrs. Overall the weather was clear,
a cool 56 degrees and I also had two
cameras pointed at the sky. I used my two trusty Olympus OM-1/(n) with
traditional KodaChrome 200
and also Fuji Sensia 400 slide film and will have the results shortly. In
2005 I used the same set-up and caught
three Perseids on film in which I was quite pleased with. I moved the
cameras to several points throughout
the sky after a few minutes of "open shutter". Now if I can just rid of
this aching stiff neck.....
Jason Snyder
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Subject: [meteorite-list] 2008 Perseid Maximum approaching
Hello Listees and Listoids,
I'm getting ready for this year's Perseids here. I've just loaded my good,
old
Canon AE1-Pr from pre-digital times with an ISO 1000 color reversal film
and am now hoping for better weather conditions (it's cloudy and overcast
at the moment). The camera is mounted on a tripod and I' m going to try
exposures between 20 seconds and 1 minute - more eposure time is out of
the question because our suburban sky is severely light-polluted :-(
The maximum is supposed to be in the early afternoon hours of August 12th
for
Central Europe, about sunrise time in the Eastern part of the US and about
three
o'clock a.m. for Arizona - so get ready for very favorable conditions in
the Far
West.
Here in Europe, the best time to observe and photograph the Perseids will
be
tomorrow morning (August 12) after moonset at about one o'clock a.m. and
also
tomorrow night (August 13) after the Moon sets at about 2 o'clock.
I will point my camera again toward the constellation Cygnus because I
succeeded
in photographing two Perseids shooting through the Swan some years ago and
this
constellation is far enough away from the shower's radiant point in
northern Perseus.
By the way, against all odds, I also succeeded in taking one picture of
the partial
solar eclipse on Friday, August 1. It was very cloudy here but right
during mid-
eclipse (ca. 20% for my location) I was able to glimpse the sun for a
brief moment,
held my digital camera to the eyepiece of my C-90 and took the shot :-)
Happy Viewing
of the Perseids
everywhere,
Bernd
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