[meteorite-list] Perseids.

[Rob Holcomb]

Just thought you all would enjoy this  image. You've gotta see this! Great 
night photo of the meteor showers, by David A. Harvey, a professional 
photographer based in Tucson Arizona. 
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kYou0sYtaeI/TGUgBSFiZ3I/AAAAAAAABwE/siGQmmSozig/s1600/_MG_6972sum_web.jpg

Rob H.
Meteorite Newbie (anyone want to sponsor me for IMCA membership?)

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From: "Linton Rohr" <lintonius at earthlink.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2010 11:19 PM
To: "Michael Murray" <mmurray at montrose.net>; "GREG LINDH" <geeg48 at msn.com>
Cc: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Perseids.

> 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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