Persieds shower

Has anybody seen anything to speak of yet ?
I am hoping Sunday morning will have a few to predict a great monday!

I live just northwest of New York City- way too bright neighborhood. I was just out for half an hour and saw nothing shooting. Drat! :C

So I guess I'll just have to go Hollywood if I wanna see stars shooting....

Jess Tauber

We stepped out in Ravena NY Saturday night around 11:30 but did not see any Perseids. What we did see in about 20-30 minutes were 6 Kappa Cygnids which was way above the projected norm. I was bewildered after noticing that all these meteors were radiating from essentially directly overhead and all were short and faint. The good news was that the sky was about mag 5 and the milky way was relatively faint but visible. Another shower to add to my stable of fiewings.

It's merely subjective but I had the feeling that there were more meteors on Friday night (I saw around 30 without doing a dedicated count) than last night. There were a number of Earthgrazers that were rather impressive. This was from the grounds of Stellafane, near Springfield, Vermont. Conditions were superb on Friday night for the entire night.

Dave Mitsky

I counted 21 meteors Friday night in 55 minutes of observing and 12 last night in 45 minutes. Some of them were very colorful and quite bright. Both observing times began just before midnight. Hopefully, tonight will be even better.

As a data point, I live in western Tennessee with about mag 5.5 skies. The Milky Way is easily seen, though not brilliant.

Hi Brian, I went to Bull Shoals in the Ozark mountains of Missouri to visit my sister, and watch the Persieds. We went out Sat night at 23:00 central time and saw about 25 in an hours time. 4 of these were Earth grazers and 2 had an orange color. Sunday night was supposed to be the peak but again we only saw about 20/hr yet this time about 10 were Earth grazers and none had any color to speak of. I have made this trek for the last three years and although I was not as impressed with the frequency rate we were able to see numerous tails which would not normally be visible and they were certainly brighter than previous years.

It also seemed like the streaks were faster than normal, but I don't know why this would be. All and all it was a worth while trip, but disappointing, since we won't have the shower during a new moon for another 9 years or so.


Dave