[AZ-Observing] Re: [TAAA_Forum] Perseids winding down?
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From: Rik Hill
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 6:10 PM
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Cc: Wayne (aka Mr. Galaxy) ; az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: [TAAA_Forum] Perseids winding down?
That was our experience as well. Last night was much better. Dolores and
I went out for an hour from 12:30am -1:30am and saw 15 Perseids and 7
sporadics (which would include Upsilon Pegasids if we saw any). I got 4
of the brightest ones in images at:
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~rhill/images_meteor-showers/2013-08-13_perseids.gif
-Rik
On 8/13/2013 5:32 PM, Wayne (aka Mr. Galaxy) wrote:
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> Hmmm, the Perseids must have been pretty active about that time, Jim. I
> went out at 12:30am and saw 5 meteors in one minute and then saw 3 meteors
> in about 30 seconds at about 1am. After that not much more meteoritic
> activity was seen, but I was mostly observing through my telescope until
> about 2:30am. The clouds started blowing in at about 2am and it completely
> clouded over at about 3am.
>
>> Wayne,
>> I went out last night at about midnight, saw 8 perseids in about 10 min.
>> Then went to bed.
>> Jim McCaw
> A couple broad bands of high, thin clouds started coming in about 2am from
> the south but up until then I was able to see M74 with its current
> supernova. The exploding star seems to be the brightest of the stars
> around the galaxy by about 0.5 magnitudes.
>
> I decided to mostly concentrate on objects near the north star and into
> Cepheus. I use Polaris for collimating my telescope all the time but I
> don't seem to look at objects in its general area. I first found NGC 188
> and saw it to be a dim, spread out open cluster only a few degrees from
> the pole star. Since the rest of the sky was looking pretty soupy I
> decided to stay with the deepsky objects in the northern sky. There is a
> nice, loose grouping of pretty faint and pretty small galaxies in the
> general area: NGCs 2276, 2300, plus IC 455 a somewhat fainter and smaller
> galaxy nearly in line with them. NGC 2268 is about a degree south from
> this grouping . I detected a couple other much fainter galaxies scattered
> among the group and according to my U2000 chart, which I didn't use last
> night, there are about a dozen much fainter galaxies nearby. I spotted a
> couple nice planetary nebulae before the clouds blotted out the sky: IC
> 1454 and the slightly larger NGC 7139. I even found
a couple small, compact diffuse nebulae, NGC 7129 and 7133, near a
scattered open cluster, NGC 7142, just as the clouds were obliterating the
sky.
>
> It was a calm, comfortable night at about 65 degrees F when I went to bed
> with good seeing and good transparency until the clouds moved in. I stayed
> outside for about another half hour just to see if any more Perseids would
> make an appearance. The final surprise of the night was a nice -3magn
> orangish meteor with a persistent trail up in the north but originating
> from the delta Aquarid radiant.
>
> Clear skies,
> Wayne (aka Mr. Galaxy)
>
>
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