2012 Perseid meteors

[lindendave]

As usual when these guys come by our weather does not cooperate! 

Just wondering if anyone else around here had better luck, and possibly some photos?

[Ron]

Dave,

Sorry about your weather, we just got back from a weekend Perseid Meteor Shower party and it was by far the best Perseid Shower I have ever seen.  I don't know if my camera caught any or not, but the wife and I saw 30 in a 2 hour period in partial cloud cover, from 12:00am till 2:00am.  One couple saw 40 in a hour with better sky conditions.  They viewed from 3:00am until 4:00am.

Will post pictures if I find any

Only found one worth editing



Found one more not to good



We saw plenty of very bright Meteors that were bright enough to penetrate the clouds, but evidently my camera couldn't see them


Ron

[Parsec]

Glad to hear you had a good time and seen some Ron.

Unfortunately, the only ones seen around here were the 'Perseid Cumulus Showers'.

[lindendave]

Thanks for posting Ron, it's more than I saw. I am not complaining since the clouds here finally let go of some rain. Counting last nights .85" we have only had 9.91" of measurable precipitation since January 1 which is way off the average 43.19"!

[drclay]

I believe that the peak actually hit on Friday night/Saturday morning about 3 a.m. local time (CDT).  I was able to catch about two per minute from that time until dawn, but half that number or less on the actual morning of the peak (Sunday morning).  So it appears we may have passed through the densest portion of the cloud about a day earlier than expected.  More observations would be great....perhaps the numbers increased throughout the daylight hours (here) on Saturday toward Saturday night and some observers in the eastern hemisphere counted more in early evening.

Doc

[neotesla]

Clouds, clouds and more clouds...   The weather just started to clear today.  Might take a look tonight for whatever bit may still be coming in, but with the current weather here even that is doubtful.  Hopefully the Leonids will put on a show later this year.

[drclay]

Lots of reports coming in today that last night (Tues-Wed) showed dozens of spectacular meteors, so the earth must be passing through a spotty portion of the stream of Swift-Tuttle; the numbers of meteors reported per hour from Saturday morning, Tuesday morning and this morning (Aug. 15) indicate that either the cloud is slightly displaced from the predicted peak, or that we have found a highly irregular groups of smaller concentrations in the wake of Swift-Tuttle.

Doc

[Brian Emfinger]

I guess I should have had my camera out last night! That is exactly the reason I try and have my camera out so much...im always afraid im going to miss something.  First night in a while that I didnt have my camera out all night and of course that happens.  Ill be out tonight for sure.  Here are my images from the meteor shower - http://www.realclearwx.com/073112.htm