Greg, Michael, List,
Glad to hear that many of you were able to enjoy the show.
I spent three days up in the White Mountains, east of Bishop, CA, near the
Nevada border. The area is home to the Bristlecone Pines - the oldest living
things, at up to 4,000 years old. Being in the rain shadow of the Sierra
Nevada, we didn't see a single cloud the whole time. The sky was very
transparent, and dark enough that we were able to easily see the zodiacal
light beginning around 3:00 or 3:30. We enjoyed plenty of DSO observing
early on, when we weren't just sitting back watching for meteors. I didn't
have a counting device, but I'd estimate we saw about 100 before midnight,
and another 200 between midnight and 4:00. They seemed to be almost equally
divided between bright ones with ion trails and faint ones without. Of the
bright ones, almost half of them had persistent trains, visible over 60-90
degrees across the sky. The shorter ones probably spanned 10-15 degrees. We
had a couple of long "skippers", an orange "firework" that seemed to explode
and then fall, and even a very bright one that might have qualified as a
bolide. A great night, all in all. One that I'll always remember.
Linton
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Murray" <mmur...@montrose.net>
To: "GREG LINDH" <gee...@msn.com>
Cc: "meteorite-list" <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 7:27 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Perseids.
We had clear skies here in southwest CO. I was out watching starting at
about 9 PM. Saw an eyepopper of a meteor at about 9:15. Long tail,
orange tint to it. I'm certainly no expert on meteors but sure looked to
me like this one made it into dark flight. I've seen a daytime fireball
and watched the big one that went over to California a while back at
night but the first one I saw last night was by far more spectacular to
see. Last night, I also watched several that were multiple pieces of 3
or more traveling side by side. They went pretty much directly overhead
going north to south. For the last few years we had clouds during the
Persieds. Nice to finally get to watch some of the shower.
Mike in CO
On Aug 13, 2010, at 6:06 AM, GREG LINDH wrote:
I stayed up all night to watch the Perseids. I laid back on a chaise
lounge, put my IPod on, and looked up. I live in Prescott Valley AZ.
which is about 5100 feet elevation, so the sky was dark and crystal
clear. Well, it's now 5:00 in the morning and the eastern sky is
starting to lighten, so I came in. I counted a total of 183 meteors.
Some were quite brilliant. Also a number of satellites. Nice night.
Greg L. ______________________________________________
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