Perseids? meteor showers

ykchia · Post by **ykchia** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 4:22 pm

Hi folks:

Nearly totally given up hope for the Perseids. A walk around 3:30am saw the sky still overcasted. I still 'put' out the video lens and also watched indoor from the TV... The result - 2 meagre Perseids detected...
see the image here...

http://www.ykchia.com/more_meteors.htm

If the weather improve I might try again...tonight

rgds
ykchia

gwenyi · Post by **gwenyi** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 5:43 pm

over at mersing, it was bit cloudy for a period around 1 to 2am. then on, there were high altitude clouds and so ... sky wasn't black. we managed to see approximately 20 meteors with 3-4 fireballs.

this new site(mersing airfield) wasn't as dark as the original mersing site with coconut trees.

cheers.

Post by **Airconvent** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 11:47 pm

gwenyi wrote:over at mersing, it was bit cloudy for a period around 1 to 2am. then on, there were high altitude clouds and so ... sky wasn't black. we managed to see approximately 20 meteors with 3-4 fireballs.

this new site(mersing airfield) wasn't as dark as the original mersing site with coconut trees.

cheers.

hi wenyi
wah..you went to mersing to see the meteors?
sadly, whateve showers there is, its always a non event in singapore.
I remembered many years back hundreds o people went to east coast at 3am to see it and it was 100% cloudy, just like this one...

btw, how far away is this site away from the original one?

Post by **rcj** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 12:12 am

hi all,
yes, just came back from Mersing too. Occasional fireballs with really long smoke trails. Observed that some of them were slightly greenish tinted and surprisely slower than typical Leonid trains... Not much though...only managed to see about 10-15 per hour, but the others might have been more observant. ;P

MooEy · Post by **MooEy** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 9:02 am

bah, lucky guys. this is the 2nd perseid shower that is completely overcast in sg.

~MooEy~

rabien · Post by **rabien** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 9:32 pm

yeah lol... anyway that was some nice perseids u caught ^_^ i din even see a single... poor thing.

Canopus Lim · Post by **Canopus Lim** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 8:34 am

I saw three (2 of them from Perseids, another probably random) meteors from 2am to 3am on Saturday night. It was like 95 percent of the sky was cloudy when I got there.. even the 'window' was not that dark too. Well.. at least I saw three and did not waste my time travelling to Pasir Ris Park to watch.