Joe Bauman wrote:
Anyone want to send me a comment on the Perseids?
Not one of my better Perseids from the standpoint of numbers but there were some impressively long and bright ones. Oddly, none that I saw, not even the bright ones, left much of a train. It was also kind of weird that there seemed to be as many sporadics as Perseids. All in all it was a good practice session for this year's Leonids.
Also, Patrick, if you're there, can you tell me how long people might be able to see some activity? It isn't completely over, is it? -- The Perseids typically last a couple of weeks with some members being seen a week or more before the peak and some a week or so after. However, the peak is very narrow so the numbers per hour before and after the peak are usually small (read: I wouldn't send folks out looking more than a day after the peak).
Patrick