PERSEID METEOR SHOWER 2018

Location:  Smileys Campground, NS and Little Lepreau, NB

Date Time:

Smileys - Aug 10, 2018 2220-2330 hrs
                Aug 11, 2018 2220-2320 hrs

Little Lepreau Aug 12, 2018 2220- 2324 hrs

Weather:

Aug 10 - Partly cloudy to mostly clear, very warm and humid.
Aug 11 -  Mostly cloudy to completely socked in with clouds.
Aug 12 - Partly clear.

Attendance:  David McCashion

Equipment:  A good reclining lawn chair.

Report:  

• Most of the time reclining, facing towards the south at the Summer Triangle.

• Aug 10 -  Seen 8 Persieds with 5 being very long and bright, yellowish with smoke trails, over a 1 hrs period

• Aug 11 - No shooting stars seen, over an hour long period, even though I could just make out the bright stars in the Summer Triangle.  Thought I would have been able to see some through the lighter cloud cover.  Cloud cover thickened after 2300 hrs.

• Aug 12 - Seen 19 Perseids that were mostly bright "Smokers" (leaving smoke trails) and 1 Sporadic, over a 1 hr 4 min period.  A nice outburst of shooting stars around 2320 hrs.