Here’s my results for the morning of July 31th 2017.  Fourth night in a row!  Once again out at Bootland Farm for a two hour pre-dawn session.  The sky was crystal clear, and it was very mild at +15C but humid.  Between 2:00-4:19am (2 hours not including breaks), I saw 53 meteors.  Another fun session for sure! The dominant showers were the S. Delta Aquariids (with 19 seen) and the Perseids (with 12 seen).  I also saw trace activity from several other minor radiants as well as 16 sporadics.  Both hours again had a very even number of meteors.

The brightest meteors were the mag -1 S. Delta Aquariid at 2:49am and the -1 sporadic at 3:54am.

No luck with the Perseids peak nights (August 11-12 2017).  They were unfavourable due to the gibbous moon in Pisces, but the weather also did not cooperate. I did see one nice bright fireball from a quick glance out the bedroom window, with mostly cloudy skies.  Talk about luck! 🙂  August and September were spent travelling for the Solar Eclipse and then to Nova Scotia, so meteor observing took a bit of a back seat 🙂

July 30/31 2017, 06:00-08:19 UT (02:00-04:19 EDT)
Location: Bootland Farm (Stewartville), Ontario, Canada
(Long: -76 deg 29′; Lat: 45 deg 23′)

Observed showers:
gamma Draconids (GDR) – 18:44 (281) +50
alpha Capricornids (CAP) – 20:24 (306) -09
Anthelion (ANT) –  21:16 (319) -16
Northern delta Aquariids (NDA) – 22:15 (334) -04
Southern delta Aquariids (SDA) – 22:42 (340) -16
Piscids Austrinids (PAU) – 22:56 (344) -24
July Pegasids (JPE) – 00:16 (004) +16
Perseids (PER) – 01:52 (028) +54
eta Eridanids (ERI) – 02:16 (034) -16
phi Piscids (PPS) – 02:44 (041) +35
psi Cassiopeiids (PCA) – 00:50 (013) +64

06:00-07:11 UT (02:00-03:11 EDT); clear; 3/5 trans; F 1.00; LM 6.50; facing S50 deg; teff 1.00 hr; 15C
SDA: eleven: -1; +1; +2(2); +3; +4(4); +5(2)
PER: six: +1(2); +2; +4(2); +5
CAP: one: +1
Sporadics: eight: +3; +4(2); +5(5)
Total meteors: Twenty-six

07:11-08:19 UT (03:11-04:19 EDT); clear; 3/5 trans; F 1.00; LM 6.35; facing S50 deg; teff 1.13 hr; 14C
SDA: eight: +2(2); +3; +4(2); +5(3)
PER: six: +1; +2(2); +3; +5(2)
GDR: two: 0; +4
ANT: one: +3
ERI: one: +2
PPS: one: +3
Sporadics: eight: -1; +1(2); +2(2); +4(2); +5
Total meteors: Twenty-nine

Clear skies,

Pierre Martin
Ottawa, Ontario