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mazzefr
I'll take door number three...
Reged: 02/12/07
Posts: 1732
Loc: Behind the Wheel in PA
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Saw about 25 from 12:30am to 2:00am Monday here in PA
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Franco
Orion XT12i w/ MoonLite
13T6, 9T6, Pan24
Scopos 35mm
Lumicon UHC, Baader M&S
DIY- Denver Chair, Light shields
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke)
Lehigh Valley, PA
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Skyshooter
journeyman
Reged: 04/07/08
Posts: 8
Loc: S. Utah, U.S.A.
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I woke up Tuesday Morning the 11th at 2:30 AM, made hot chocolate for the kids and coffee for my wife and I. We got outside around 3:00 AM. My skies are magnitude 5 with a light dome to my north from city lights, say mag 4 low in the north. I didn't start counting until 4:00 AM. Actually the brightest perseids, those with persistent trains, were before 4 AM. Between 4 and 5 AM I counted 30. I was somewhat disappointed until I started reading some of the accounts here. We have VERY dark skies in the mountains here but, in my back yard I can't complain about mag 5 skies. It was clear and about 55 degrees. I just wish I had taken the scope out and done some imaging at the same time. The main thing is we had fun!
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Octavarium
member
Reged: 08/02/08
Posts: 62
Loc: East Haven, CT
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Here in CT there were hardly any before and after 12th (the peak was cloudy), 4th mag stars were visible in my skys at night also.
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Meade ETX-125PE
Series 4000 plossol eyepiece/filter set
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Randy Spiker
Radioactive Stormchaser
Reged: 01/28/07
Posts: 1646
Loc: Carson City Nv. Elev 4720 feet
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Last year I took the next day off from work so I could stay up all night and enjoy the show. They were saying it was supposed to be spectacular, one of the best in years with a New Moon to boot. Total dud with about 3-4 an hour at best.
Sounds like this year was a little better but nothing like years past where it was almost constant or so it seemed.
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Zhumell 12" The "Beast"
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A wonderful, understanding Wife, 2 Dogs, lots of backyard Birdies, mag. 6+ skies to the S.E. on a good night.
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as my wallet empties.
Carson City, Nv.
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E_Look
professor emeritus
Reged: 03/06/08
Posts: 587
Loc: near New York
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The best Perseids I've seen were about four years ago, maybe. Wow, that night (morning) they were literally coming about one every few minutes, or better. It looked like Klingon starships were raining torpedoes chasing some target!
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Ed
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Mopman
sage
Reged: 10/14/06
Posts: 283
Loc: Richland, WA, USA
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I thought the show was pretty good from south eastern WA. I caught one (out of 10 tries) on my DSLR. Look in Deep Sky Photo Album under Perseid 2008. Mopman
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Geoff48
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Reged: 07/30/08
Posts: 14
Loc: N 43˚ 14' 52.7" W 71I...
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Strangely enough, I saw 20+ on 8/1 during the Indiana Star Party.
I was out last week, I forget what night it was. It was before the peak, but it was spectacular to say the least. There were meteors everywhere in the sky, I even saw a few through my scope which was aimed south. Seriously about the best I've ever seen of the Perseids. I am a newbie with a scope, but not at watching meteor showers. Last night I was out for about an hour and saw none at all.
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Geoff. Since 1960.
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Silicon Owl
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 11/25/05
Posts: 944
Loc: Waimea, Hawaii
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Meteors can be like that. One moment they are everywhere, the next there are none, the same from hour to hour or day to day. It is well known to meteor watchers that they come in flurries, that the debris from the comet is not evenly distributed.
There are those that have attempted to predict meteor showers, with some success, by careful models of orbits, gravity and other factors like solar radiation pressure. Despite the predictions the fun part about meteors is that most of the time we just don't know. You have to go out and watch the skies for yourself.
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Andrew Cooper
Personal Website and CN Gallery
Handmade 18" Dob / NS11GPS / 6" RFT / 90mm APO / TV-76 ...and a twin 10m
"I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night." --Sarah Williams
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