Even though there are no major showers currently active, meteor rates are still elevated as the background ‘Spoadic’ rate is near its annual peak.
Here in Tucson, the monsoon has taken a break after a rather active stretch. Though we are a little above our average rainfall level, the storms have been rather boring this year.
The nights should be clear for the next few days until the wind swings out of the southeast again and the monsoon moisture returns.
Obs Date(UT) Time TOT SPO ANT PER AUD AUR SAL3 2010-08-30 07h 26m 21 18 2 - 1 0 ALLS 2010-08-30 06h 52m 17 15 2 - - 2 SAL3 2010-08-29 08h 15m 27 22 2 - 2 1 SAL3 2010-08-28 04h 47m 13 11 1 - 1 - SAL3 2010-08-27 01h 11m 3 2 0 - 1 - SAL3 2010-08-26 00h 00m Bad weather SAL3 2010-08-25 00h 00m Bad weather SAL3 2010-08-24 04h 12m 13 9 2 1 1 - 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 AUD - August Draconids AUR - Aurigids
My family and I were walking in Philly (near the Piazza) on Aug 25 or 26th 2010 (I can’t remember) and my son noticed a fireball in the sky, it was about 8:15pm, still light out, we watched it until it burned out. It was bright yellow, and looked pretty close. We watched it for about 5 seconds. My son thought it was a shooting star at first, then we realized it had to be a fireball. Did anyone else see this?