6 PAS members observed at Mike's place from 1 to 4 am. At around 2:30 am we saw
35 meteors in 20 mins, an effective rate of 105 per hour. It was a bortle 4.3,
80 degrees temp, no wind, no clouds. Best meteor shower I have seen. Paul
Facuna recorded the event and will submit the info to the International Meteor
Organization. We saw several fireballs, but very few colorful meteors. Hope
many of you got to see this. Alex, you should submit your findings to the IMO.
It is almost 6am, I think I will go to bed. What a long day.Take care. Sam
Insana President of PAS
Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE smartphone
-------- Original message --------
From: Alex Vrenios <axv@xxxxxxx>
Date: 8/12/16 2:56 AM (GMT-07:00)
To: pasmembers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [pasmembers] Perseids
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
