From: TerryMosel aol.com Date: 10 August 2006 19:14:11 BDT Subject: Perseids + BBQ, Armagh Planetarium Hi all, We are now approaching the maximum of the annual Perseids meteor shower. ... The problem is that there will be a bright gibbous Moon (83% illuminated) on the night of maximum, and that will drown out all but the brightest meteors. ... But if there's any reasonable amount of clear sky, we'll be there. ... Clear skies, Terry Moseley . Last Revised: 2006 August 11th . ...

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... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Comet Hyakutake wowed us this spring [see Guest Observer, May/June, p. 11]. ... The best time to observe a meteor shower is after midnight, as your nighttime location moves head-on into the path of the cometary debris. ... As observers, we are interested in the number of Perseids per time interval. ... Tabulate the number of meteors observed per interval, and make sure to label the table with the local time and date of each interval. ...

ARCSAT ID NUMBER: AS07 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Time Domain Studies of Transients and Variable Stars PI: Guy Stringfellow OBSERVER(S): Guy Stringfellow, CU undergrads TBD UNCERTIFIED ... CU undergrads COLLABORATORS: CONTACT INFORMATION: Guy.Stringfellow@colorado.edu 303-506-3160 cell NUMBER OF WEEKS REQUESTED: 3 TIME REQUESTED: Requires Dark time and time cadence ~monthly Run 1: July 13 (alternate: ... Based on our previous ARCSAT observations, we now have an 11-tile grid covering M31. ...

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... Aug 2nd, 2010| 05:21 pm | ... There is an ambitious project afoot to build a 3D map of a meteor stream during the Perseids on Aug 11-12. ... I would be especially interested in your comments on the statistical technique I propose to use in analyzing the data. ... Tags: Announcement , Aug 2010 , August , meteors , modeling , Perseids , spatial-temporal modeling . ... Posted by chasc . ... Tags: 2010 , Announcement , astronomical data , astrostatistics , Aug 2010 , August , Computational , workshop . ...