My 6th night of observation started out with unusually high sporadic rates. The first hour I counted 17 sporadic meteors, and a high number of the meteors seemed to originate from the Cassiopeia region of the sky. The next hour the sporadic rates declined noticeably to 7, before they again rose to 15 and 11 the two last hours.

I was eager to see if the Southern Delta Aquarids could keep up the good rates from the previous night but was a little disappointed to see rates of only 3 and 4 the two first hours. The next two hours rates were more comparable to the night before, with 10 and 8 meteors seen. Most of the Southern Delta Aquarids seen this night was quite faint, with no meteors brighter than +1.

Like most of the previous nights, the Capricornids showed steady rates between 2 and 5, with a couple of nice +0 mag meteors. Except from this, most of the Capricornids seen this night was in the magnitude range +3 to +5.

The Perseids was a joy to observe this night with rates reaching 5 the two last hours, and with some nice meteors! At 23:54 UT a yellow -2 mag Perseid streaked into Draco, leaving a bright smoke train for about 5 seconds. Only 8 minutes later another yellow -2 mag Perseid flared up in Pegasus!

A total of 107 meteors were seen during 4 hours of observation this night. Of these were: 50 SPO, 13 CAP, 25 SDA, 13 PER, 4 GDR, and 2 ANT.

 

Observed showers:

Alpha Capricornids (001 CAP)

Southern Delta Aquarids (005 SDA)

Perseids (007 PER)

July Gamma Draconids (184 GDR)

Anthelion Source (ANT)

 

21:00 – 22:00. Teff: 1.00, F: 1.00, Lm: 6.77, RA: 270, DEC: +20

SPO: 17 meteors. +0, +1(2), +2(2), +3(2), +4(5), +5(4), +6

CAP: 5 meteors. +0, +2, +3, +4, +5

SDA: 3 meteors. +4, +5(2)

PER: 0 meteors.

GDR: 1 meteor. +2

ANT: 0 meteors.

22:00 – 23:00. Teff: 1.00, F: 1.00, Lm: 6.77, RA: 285, DEC: +20

SPO: 7 meteors. -1, +0, +1, +2, +3, +5, +6

CAP: 2 meteors. +0, +4

SDA: 4 meteors. +2, +4, +5, +6

PER: 3 meteors. +1, +2, +4

GDR: 1 meteor. +3

ANT: 0 meteors.

23:00 – 00:00. Teff: 1.00, F: 1.00, Lm: 6.77, RA: 300, DEC: +20

SPO: 15 meteors. +1(2), +2(3), +3(2), +4(3), +5(4), +6

CAP: 4 meteors. +1, +3, 5(2)

SDA: 10 meteors. +1, +3(4), +4(2), +5(2), +6

PER: 5 meteors. -2, +2(2), +3, +6

GDR: 0 meteors.

ANT: +6

00:00 – 01:00. Teff: 1.00, F: 1.00, Lm: 6.77, RA: 315, DEC: +20

SPO: 11 meteors. +2(2), +3(2), +4(5), +5(2)

CAP: 2 meteors. +3, +6

SDA: 8 meteors. +1, +2, +3(2), +4(2), +5(2)

PER: 5 meteors. -2, +0(2), +5(2)

GDR: 2 meteors. +3, +4

ANT: 1 meteor. +3