[meteorite-list] 2007 Perseids

[Mark]

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

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de>
To: <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
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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