My final night with observations from Agios Pavlos, emerged as a calm and clear night with very transparent sky! The observation started out with good sporadic activity, and only 5 minutes into the observation a brilliant, yellow -2 mag Capricornid with fragments and a final flare, glided into Ophiuchus. 4 more Capricornids were seen the first hour, before the rates stabilized around 3 for the rest of the night.
The Southern Delta Aquarids showed a modest rate of 2 the first two hours. The next three hours with higher radiant elevation gave counts of 7, 12, and 6 respectively. The meteors were not so bright as the previous night, but still some nice +0 and +1 mags were seen.
The Perseids showed variable activity between 0 and 5 throughout the night, with a couple of nice +0 mag meteors seen.
This was my first night including the Kappa Cygnid radiant. One obvious candidate of mag +2 was seen at 23:55 UT, as it slowly glided from a radiant north in Lyra into Cygnus. Stable sporadic rates between 8 and 15 meteors persisted throughout the night.
This concludes my observations from Agios Pavlos with 10 nights of observation in a row. It was now time to have some rest and enjoy the sun the last days of my vacation, although it was very hard to leave the beautiful night sky alone for the remaining time in Crete.
A total of 123 meteors were seen during 5 hours of observation this night. Of these were: 55 SPO, 16 CAP, 29 SDA, 14 PER, 0 GDR, 1 KCG, and 8 ANT.
Observed showers:
Alpha Capricornids (001 CAP)
Southern Delta Aquarids (005 SDA)
Perseids (007 PER)
July Gamma Draconids (184 GDR)
Kappa Cygnids (012 KCG)
Anthelion Source (ANT)
20:45 – 21:45. Teff: 1.00, F: 1.00, Lm: 6.80, RA: 285, DEC: +20
SPO: 10 meteors. +1, +2(2), +3(3), +4, +5(2), +6
CAP: 5 meteors. -2, +1, +3(2), +4
SDA: 2 meteors. +2, +3
PER: 0 meteors.
GDR: 0 meteors
KCG: 0 meteors.
ANT: 2 meteors. +2, +3
21:45 – 22:45. Teff: 1.00, F: 1.00, Lm: 6.80, RA: 300, DEC: +20
SPO: 9 meteors. +1, +2(2), +3(3), +4, +6(2)
CAP: 3 meteors. +4(3)
SDA: 2 meteors. +1, +4
PER: 5 meteors. +0, +1, +3, +4, +5
GDR: 0 meteors.
KCG: 0 meteors
ANT: 1 meteor. +3
22:45 – 23:45. Teff: 1.00, F: 1.00, Lm: 6.80, RA: 315, DEC: +20
SPO: 8 meteors. +0, +1, +2, +4, +5(3), +6
CAP: 3 meteors. +1, +2, +3
SDA: 7 meteors. +0, +1, +2, +3, +4(2), +5
PER: 1 meteor. +3
GDR: 0 meteors.
KCG: 0 meteors
ANT: 1 meteor. +5
23:45 – 00:55. Teff: 1.00 (10 minutes break), F: 1.00, Lm: 6.80, RA: 330, DEC: +15
SPO: 15 meteors. +0(2), +1, +2(3), +3(3), +4(4), +5, +6
CAP: 3 meteors. +3, +4(2)
SDA: 12 meteors. +1(2), +2(3), +3(2), +4, +5(3), +6
PER: 3 meteors. +2, +4(2)
GDR: 0 meteors.
KCG: 1 meteor. +2
ANT: 1 meteor. +1
00:55 – 01:55. Teff: 1.00, F: 1.00, Lm: 6.70, RA: 345, DEC: +15
SPO: 13 meteors. +2, +3(5), +4(3), +5(3), +6
CAP: 2 meteors. +0, +5
SDA: 6 meteors. +2(3), +3, +4(2)
PER: 5 meteors. +0, +2(2), +4, +5
GDR: 0 meteors.
KCG: 0 meteors.
ANT: 3 meteors. +1(2), +4
