I observed for an hour, from about 1:30 to 2:30 am MST.
Location:
My backyard in north central Phoenix
LAT = 33.629866 = 33 37’ 47.52” N
LON = -112.049437 = 112 02’ 57.97” W
ELV = 442.45 m = 1450 ft
Seeing:
Limiting Mag = 5.6
Transparency II (hazy, humid air)
Central View Star:
Algol
Observations (UTC): All sightings were blue-white, magnitude 1
(approximately)
08:27 Fast, bright, short trace
08:30 Fast, bright, longer trace
08:38 Slower, shorter (less than 1 degree of arc) high up in CAS
08:45 Slow, lower in sky
08:55 Very fast, faint, near Pleiades
09:02 Bright, fast, near Pleiades
09:04 Bright, slow
09:05 Bright, fast, not much more than a flash in Perseus
09:09 Bright, fast in Ursa Minor
09:11 Bright, fast, high in sky in CAS
09:23 Bright, fast, brief, in CAS
09:24 Bright, brief in Perseus
09:27 Very bright in northwestern sky - stray?
09:28 Very bright, brief, in northern sky
Hope this is useful. I wasn’t planning to record anything. Didn’t expect much.
No bolides, but nice show at about 15 per hour.
Alex
