Observation August 13/14 2021 — A Perseid outburst!
Here’s my report on an extraordinary and surprising 2021 Perseid meteor outburst. This was a...
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Author: Pierre Martin
Observation August 12/13 2021
For the predicted peak night, local amateur astronomer and photographer Raymond Dubois was...
Read MoreObservation August 11/12 2021
I went to the Moosecreek site (dark sky site located about 60 km east of Ottawa, Ontario )on the evening of August 11 for a short meteor session, one night before the predicted peak. It was a very warm 26C, muggy and hazy...
Read MoreObservation August 2/3 2021
A few nights later, I returned to Bootland Farm for a two hour meteor watch (from about midnight to 2am EDT local time). The sky conditions were much better than the previous session, with 3/5 transparency, and a quite nice...
Read MoreObservation July 30/31 2021
After several months of being away from observing, and having rather poor luck with weather for the late 2020 meteor showers maximums, it was good to finally be out again this summer. The period from late July and into August...
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