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Originally Posted by Liz
A better morning today with beautiful clear skies, and I managed to spot about 14 meteors in a 70 minute period. 5 of these were Perseids, with 3 quite bright smoking ones, though not as bright as yesterdays beauty.
Alas, had my alarm set wrong, so didnt get outside until 4.45, but still was a very fruitful and enjoyable morning. Might try again tomorrow. 
Imaged a couple but not as many as I hoped. |
It is great that so many folks here are seeing the Perseids.
Sounds like you had a good morning Liz, I managed to see 1 good fireball when I finally dragged myself out of bed back here in cairns at 5:30am today !
I have just come back from 4 days at the Garma festival in Arnhem Land NT where I did Aboriginal Astronomy tours for over 200 people and a few hardy souls even ventured out with me at 4:30am to catch some Perseids.
Saturday morning was my best where I saw 1 fireball and 2 of what I call tree skimming sparklers along with about 10 other perseids. Tree skimming Sparklers=2 bright Perseids in succession going in opposite directions above the tree line
We also had 1 sporadic bolide the evening before to the north, which was seen by many.
PS: thanks for the fireball vs Bolide explanation Liz, I have been using them interchangeably
