The Perseids 2008 activity is the topic of this post. The 2008 activity was in a normal to slightly enhanced level. There is a sharp peak after the normal peak, at a solar longitude of 140.6 .
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Perseids-2008
Posted in Astronomy, Meteor Shower, tagged Perseids on August 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Spectacular photos from Perseids
Posted in Astronomy, Meteor Shower, Photo, tagged Perseids on July 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
For more such images, see http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Perseids-2007
Posted in Astronomy, Meteor Shower, tagged Perseids on June 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Perseids 2007 activity is the topic of this post. As seen in the above plot, the early peak that was observed in 88-99 and also in 2004 is not seen here. The activity level is modetare and resembles a normal Perseids meteor shower. A peak ZHR of about 90 is similar to 2005 activity [...]
Perseids-2005
Posted in Astronomy, Meteor Shower, tagged Perseids on June 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Perseids 2005 activity is discussed in this post. After wonderful activity in 2004, the 2005 Perseids shower was not as spectacular. The 2005 Perseids exhibited a normal to rather low maximum activity level. There is no clear peak time, but this can still be due to the limited amount of data. It might be [...]
Perseids-2004
Posted in Astronomy, Meteor Shower, tagged Perseids on May 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
In this post, we review the Perseids activity in 2004. A total of 16536 Perseids is comprised by 1567 individual observing periods as used for the below plot. A short-lived peak of activity was observed at 20h56m UT +-4 min on August 11, 2004. If we assume a background activity of 80-90 during the peak, [...]
