[Friends_of_SSASTROS] Plympton Perseids Report

[Mike McCabe]

 Very awesome! I stayed out from 1:00am to 2:00am on Saturday night and didn't see much at all. Last night was almost completely cloudy when I got home from the lighthouse, but obviously that changed while I slept!
Mike

    On Monday, August 12, 2024 at 09:07:30 AM EDT, bdecristofano at ssastros.org <bdecristofano at ssastros.org> wrote:  
 
 
I hope you got a chance to view some meteors!  On Sat/Sun night, Carolyn and I and Brendan were out in our yard from about 10:30 until 12:30.  We saw a handful (maybe 10?).  The clouds kept coming over, then clearing a bit, and repeating that.  This morning, I was out from 1:30 until about 3:30.  It was clear, dark, and great.  I counted 67 Perseids and 3 strays.  Of the 67, 44 were what I call “bright” – 2nd magnitude or brighter, and the rest “faint”.  THEN…at around 2:18…the Northern Lights sprung up into the sky.  A curtain of pink, with vertical striations, just rose up and brightened.  It varied a little and after about 5-8 minutes, the dropped down again, and were out of sight.  For a sonic backdrop during the light display, Pink Floyd’s Shine On You Crazy Diamond was up in our Meteor Watching Playlist shuffle.  Wow…

  

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