The sky cleared briefly on August 5/6 to allow a quick one hour meteor watch at around midnight. I drove to the Moose Creek site, which is a shorter drive from home (about 50 km), and it also allowed me to check out the location since I haven’t been there in a while. The sky was clear but with below-average transparency and clouds approaching from the west. It was 22C, dry, without any bugs, no humidity, and very comfortable to be outside. I was pretty much observing from the middle of a large corn field.
Between 11:25pm-12:25am (local time), I saw 10 meteors (5 Perseids, 2 anthelions and 3 sporadics).
The nicest meteor was the -1 PER at 11:34pm that shot 30 degrees with a 2 sec train.
Clouds rapidly moved in after one hour, so I called it quits.
Observation August 5/6 2019, 03:25-04:25 UT (23:25-00:25 EDT)
Location: Moose Creek, Ontario, Canada
(45°15’13″N 75°02’57″W)
Observed showers:
kappa Cygnids (KCG) – 18:40 (280) +45
alpha Capricornids (CAP) – 20:38 (309) -08
Anthelion (ANT) – 21:36 (324) -14
Northern delta Aquariids (NDA) – 22:33 (338) -02
Southern Delta Aquariids (SDA) – 23:01 (345) -15
Piscids Austrinids (PAU) – 23:10 (349) -22
Perseids (PER) – 02:20 (035) +55
eta Eridanids (ERI) – 02:32 (038) -14
49 Andromedids (FAN) – 02:41 (040) +53
psi Cassiopeiids (PCA) – 03:47 (057) +78
03:25-04:25 UT (23:25-00:25 EDT); clear; 2/5 trans; F 1.00; LM 6.20; facing SE60 deg; teff 1.00 hr
PER: five: -1; 0; +1; +3; +5
ANT: two: +4(2)
Sporadics: three: +1; +2; +4
Total meteors: Ten
