Perseids from Hungry Valley, CA

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I observed from Hungry Valley, CA (just south of Mt. Pinos), night of
Aug 11/12. As others have observed, many earthgrazers in the early
evening hours. I caught a 45 degree fireball as I was setting up 9pm.
Then another one ~9:45pm.

The best one of the night was around midnight. It had multiple flashes
& lit up the entire ground. WOW!! I was just loading a new videotape
into my low-light B&W camera..which was pointing in that area..so I
almost had it on video. Later, there was a 90 degree fireball.

There were periods were there was little activity. As the radiant got
higher, you noticed the "tear drop effect" where meteors were near the
horizon. Many times, I caught the "double meteor effect", where 2 of
them appear in quick succession.

It definitely was noted for the bright meteors..quite a show!

From near the OK/TX border I caught this fireball right
next to the Andromeda galaxy... Canon digital at ISO
1600 with 50mm f1.8 lens for a series of 15 second shots
(a total of six frames in the following gif movie)...

http://www.softwaregod.com/perseid.gif

The last three frames capture the minute it took for the
debris trail to slowly fade away...


On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 14:24:15 +0000, B Yen wrote:

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I observed from Hungry Valley, CA (just south of Mt. Pinos), night of
Aug 11/12. As others have observed, many earthgrazers in the early
evening hours. I caught a 45 degree fireball as I was setting up 9pm.
Then another one ~9:45pm.

The best one of the night was around midnight. It had multiple flashes
& lit up the entire ground. WOW!! I was just loading a new videotape
into my low-light B&W camera..which was pointing in that area..so I
almost had it on video. Later, there was a 90 degree fireball.

There were periods were there was little activity. As the radiant got
higher, you noticed the "tear drop effect" where meteors were near the
horizon. Many times, I caught the "double meteor effect", where 2 of
them appear in quick succession.

It definitely was noted for the bright meteors..quite a show!

"B Yen" wrote in message
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I observed from Hungry Valley, CA (just south of Mt. Pinos), night of


HUNGRY VALLEY??? WOWWW