During a break on the tail end of a night of telescope observing, I spent a half-hour from 10:15-10:45 UTC on 8-11-2007 facing the Perseid radiant from Little Mtn to the north east. The Sky Quality Meter put the zlm at 20.4MPSAS or v5.8. The Perseus Double Cluster, the Cygnus Rift and the Andromeda Galaxy were all naked-eye. Typical for Utah summer nights, a light breeze kept seeing poor below 35 degs alt. I faced north-east with the Perseus radiant at about 40-50 degs altitude and a ninety-degree or 1/4 local horizon azimuth view. I sat in an astro-zen state of watchfull sleeping-deprived waiting. During the half-hour I saw 8 meteors in this part quadrant of the local horizon, all on Perseus radiant tracks, in a magnitude pattern of 4,3..3,2,2. Earlier in the evening around 5-6 UTC, I was using the telescope. About ten cars of family viewers came to Little Mtn for the night. As the Perseus radiant rose, the crowd gave two hurrahs, corresponding to bright horizontal traveling bolides. But I did not see these personally but was given a description by a general public visitor. The family groups left around midnight. Between 10:30UTC through leaving at 11:00 UTC, a diffuse zodical light could be seen in the northeast tracing the ecliptic plane between Gemini to 10 degs short of the Haydes moving group. - Kurt P.S. - I donot expect this to be a particularly great Perseid shower. The source comet is on its outbound leg and I expect we will have declining rates through the remainder of our lifetimes. But I still enjoy'em. _______________________________________________ Sent via CSolutions - http://www.csolutions.net