[meteorite-list] Perseids.

[Linton Rohr]

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" <mmurray at montrose.net>
To: "GREG LINDH" <geeg48 at msn.com>
Cc: "meteorite-list" <meteorite-list at 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.
>>
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