Date Time: August 11, 2019 0300-0500hrs
Weather: No breeze, to slight breeze, partly cloudy, hazy, cool 8C 91% humidity. Lots of dew, no bugs.
Attendance: David McCashion
Equipment: Reclining lawn chair, Canon Rebel T3 with 18-55mm on tripod.
Objective: To view and image the 2019 Perseid meteor shower, which has been mostly washed out by the moon phase this year. Moon was down by 3am, which is why this time was selected.
Report:
- Faced mostly towards the Summer triangle, which was very high to the west and also observed to the south.
- From 0306-0406 viewed 17 Perseids, mostly yellowish, about Aldebaran bright. Fast moving, many were very faint. Also viewed 5 faint sporadics and one very bright Bolide coming straight down to the west.
- Clouds moved in from the North around 0330 and covered the northern half of the sky for 20 mins.
- Imaged from 0415-0500hrs. Observed 4 more Perseids while imaging, but they flew everywhere but through the camera field of view. Had much trouble with lens fogging up.
- Orion rising at 4am.
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| Twelve second image of Orion rising just before 1st light. Facing East. |
- First light just before 5am.
- Seen many satellites with one doing an iridium flare.
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