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[PHXJeff@xxxxxxx]

My efforts to find dark skies were thwarted last night due to car 
problems and I got back home in Phoenix (west side - 75th Ave & Indian 
School area) around 2 AM. I set up out back in the shade of my two story 
observatory. I used a camp chair to lay back and watch. I had a camera 
and tripod set up, but the sky was way too bright to try any timed 
exposures.

The night was perfect except for the full moon and lights of Phoenix. I 
saw on the order of 60 meteors from 2:30 to 4:00 AM. Several were very 
bright. What I found interesting was that on two occasions, meteors 
seemed to be flying in formation, yet widely separated. One time one came 
from the east both north and one south of me. Their timing and magnitudes 
seemed exact from entry to disappearance. There was another set like that 
later but in a different area.

Certainly no storm, but I was impressed at what I saw from my backyard in 
Phoenix with a full moon.

Jeff

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