[meteorite-list] 2008 Perseid Maximum approaching

From: Jay & Annette <AJSnyder_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:11:10 -0700
Message-ID: <E440AAB23E3F4145B290F3578736CE36_at_YOUR1DE5B2D024>

Hello List and Bernd,

For the skies over the greater Las Vegas area they were perfect. I was
above the 6000' ft area
at Mt. Charleston, NV. from 2215 until 0415 and witnessed 240 meteors,
falling from all directions.
Most of them from the radiant, but a few came from behind me, not to mention
the far extreme
sides, towards the horizon. The shower peaked right on schedule about 0200
here, with a maximum
of 67 meteors falling from 0200 to 0300hrs. Overall the weather was clear,
a cool 56 degrees and I also had two
cameras pointed at the sky. I used my two trusty Olympus OM-1/(n) with
traditional KodaChrome 200
and also Fuji Sensia 400 slide film and will have the results shortly. In
2005 I used the same set-up and caught
three Perseids on film in which I was quite pleased with. I moved the
cameras to several points throughout
the sky after a few minutes of "open shutter". Now if I can just rid of
this aching stiff neck.....

Jason Snyder


----- Original Message -----
From: <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de>
To: <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 6:31 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] 2008 Perseid Maximum approaching


> Hello Listees and Listoids,
>
> I'm getting ready for this year's Perseids here. I've just loaded my good,
> old
> Canon AE1-Pr from pre-digital times with an ISO 1000 color reversal film
> and am now hoping for better weather conditions (it's cloudy and overcast
> at the moment). The camera is mounted on a tripod and I' m going to try
> exposures between 20 seconds and 1 minute - more eposure time is out of
> the question because our suburban sky is severely light-polluted :-(
>
> The maximum is supposed to be in the early afternoon hours of August 12th
> for
> Central Europe, about sunrise time in the Eastern part of the US and about
> three
> o'clock a.m. for Arizona - so get ready for very favorable conditions in
> the Far
> West.
>
> Here in Europe, the best time to observe and photograph the Perseids will
> be
> tomorrow morning (August 12) after moonset at about one o'clock a.m. and
> also
> tomorrow night (August 13) after the Moon sets at about 2 o'clock.
>
> I will point my camera again toward the constellation Cygnus because I
> succeeded
> in photographing two Perseids shooting through the Swan some years ago and
> this
> constellation is far enough away from the shower's radiant point in
> northern Perseus.
>
> By the way, against all odds, I also succeeded in taking one picture of
> the partial
> solar eclipse on Friday, August 1. It was very cloudy here but right
> during mid-
> eclipse (ca. 20% for my location) I was able to glimpse the sun for a
> brief moment,
> held my digital camera to the eyepiece of my C-90 and took the shot :-)
>
> Happy Viewing
> of the Perseids
> everywhere,
>
> Bernd
>
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