After 3 nights of mostly clouds, last night was clear enough to allow some good video meteor watching. Perseids rates are done big time now that we are a few days past maximum. None of the other active showers appear to be producing much.
Obs Date(UT) Time TOT SPO ANT PER SDA ERI KCG AUD SAL3 2010-08-18 06h 07m 26 17 3 5 0 0 1 0 SAL3 2010-08-17 00h 19m 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 SAL3 2010-08-16 00h 00m Clouds/Rain all night SAL3 2010-08-15 02h 30m 3 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 SAL3 - SALSA3 camera in Tucson (Carl Hergenrother) ALLS - Near all-sky camera in Tucson (Carl Hergenrother) VIST - Visual observations from Tucson (Carl Hergenrother) SDG - Camera in San Diego operated by Bob Lunsford Time - Total amount of time each camera looked for meteors TOT - Total number of meteors detected SPO - Sporadics (meteors not affiliated with any particular meteor shower) ANT - Antihelions PER - Perseids SDA - Southern Delta Aquariids BPE - Beta Perseids ERI - Eta Eridanids KCG - Kappa Cygnids AUD - August Draconids
Did anyone else see the fireball in the sky last night in Sonoma? It bordered Sonoma & Kenwood. The smoke trail stayed in the sky for some time. This was just before dark. It was fantastic.