Perseids and others on night of 5th to 6th August 2023

[Rick]

The Perseids are already arriving in quantity. This is a tracked stack of the meteors captured by my two Global Meteor Network cameras on the night of 5th to 6th August, 2023. Between them, the cameras caught 149 meteors. The preliminary analysis suggests 74 were Perseids, 39 were sporadics, 9 were Southern delta Aquiriids, 8 were alpha Capricorinds, 8 were kappa Cygnids, 7 were Piscis Austrinids, 2 eta Eridanids and 2 Northern delta Aquiriids. There was patchy cloud at times, and the Moon was a few days past full, but still bright. The camera fields do overlap, so some were seen by both cameras...


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Polaris is near the centre and Perseus is roughly half-way out at four-o'clock. The Perseid radiant is near the top of Perseus just below Cassiopeia (the "W" a little to the right of Polaris).

The long bright meteor in the lower left of the stack was a sporadic seen by 18 other Global Meteor Network cameras: https://archive.ukmeteors.co.uk/reports/2023/orbits/202308/20230805/20230805_233526.118_UK/index.html

[Dave A]

Rick

Very exciting data

[Rick]

Last night was almost twice as busy. Havn't had time to combine the cameras'data, though.