Meteor season...

[Rick]

Well, it's almost always meteor season, except when it's cloudy, but I was browsing through last night's captures in the UKMon archive. A few caught my eye. There's this pretty Perseid:

https://archive.ukmeteors.co.uk/reports/2025/orbits/202508/20250802/20250802_221419.669_UK/index.html

This pretty sporadic:

https://archive.ukmeteors.co.uk/reports/2025/orbits/202508/20250802/20250802_233052.252_UK/index.html

...and this, which had a trail long enough that very few cameras caught all of it:

https://archive.ukmeteors.co.uk/reports/2025/orbits/202508/20250802/20250802_220040.684_UK/index.html

[Rick]

The Perseids are already quite active. My two meteor cameras saw about 80 of them last night. Here are orbits for three of the brightest:

https://archive.ukmeteors.co.uk/reports/2025/orbits/202508/20250805/20250805_013152.545_UK/index.html

https://archive.ukmeteors.co.uk/reports/2025/orbits/202508/20250804/20250804_235331.863_UK/index.html

https://archive.ukmeteors.co.uk/reports/2025/orbits/202508/20250804/20250804_235500.019_UK/index.html

The maps of stations on those pages kind-of show where the holes in the cloud were at the time, particularly on the 2nd and 3rd ones, where there's a clear belt from the Severn estuary to the Humber estuary. The south-east seems to have been a bit cloudier...