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To: Nachum
Hit the kill switch on our pole light and spent 2.5 hours (1 - 3:30 am) on a lounge -- with my feet toward the Perseus radiant. Saw thirty (30) "definites" and far more than that of "possibles" (too fast, fleeting and faint to "be there" when my eyes tracked over to them).

The curious thing is that the majority were not aligned with the Perseus radiant, but traveled opposite or at right angles to Perseid tracks. The best meteors were crossing Cassiopeia from left to right. If I hadn't known it was the wrong time of year, I would have thought they were Ursids...

Bottom line: from my viewpoint, the Perseids have been a "bust" this year...

19 posted on 08/13/2010 9:17:49 AM PDT by TXnMA (If it were not for losing the Library Of Congress and the Smithsonian...)
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To: TXnMA

Did not see much where we were either. But, it was worth a shot.


20 posted on 08/13/2010 9:22:05 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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