{"id":2913,"date":"2017-11-06T15:22:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T15:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.popastro.com\/main_spa1\/meteor\/?page_id=2913"},"modified":"2024-06-11T01:29:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T00:29:08","slug":"2014-perseids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.popastro.com\/meteor\/2017\/11\/06\/2014-perseids\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 Perseids"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moonlight and cloud posed challenges for observers of the 2014 Perseid maximum.<\/p>\n

Maximum was predicted to occur only around 54 hours after a near-perigee Full Moon and with the Moon in the sky all night. In order to minimise the impact of the moonlight, observers would need to observe with their backs to the Moon – which effectively meant observing the northern sky, rather than the more “traditional” Pegasus area.<\/p>\n

An added issue was that a weather front was moving south across the UK during maximum night \u00a0and only observers in southern England would have any chance of clear skies.<\/p>\n

Results for maximum night (Aug 12-13) have been received from\u00a0Richard Fleet, David Scanlan, Martin Scanlan and Steven Coe<\/strong>. David, Martin and Steven observed\u00a0between 2130 and 0030UT\u00a0<\/strong>and recorded\u00a070 Perseids<\/strong>\u00a0and 9 sporadics (LM 5.0). Richard operated his video cameras a part of the UKMON network and imaged many Perseids.<\/p>\n

Meteor watches on the nights leading up to Perseid maximum were carried out by\u00a0David Scanlan, Graham Winstanley\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Tony Markham<\/strong>. Tony recorded\u00a06 Perseids<\/strong>\u00a0and 6 sporadics (LM 5.4) between\u00a02355 and 0110UT\u00a0<\/strong>during the night of\u00a0Aug 4-5<\/strong>\u00a0and recorded\u00a010 Perseids<\/strong>\u00a0and 4 sporadics between\u00a02338 and 0045UT<\/strong>\u00a0(LM 4.8) during the night of\u00a0Aug 11-12<\/strong>. Graham was the only person able to observe on\u00a0Aug 13-14<\/strong>\u00a0and recorded 9 Perseids and 2 sporadics between\u00a02239 and 2345UT<\/strong>\u00a0(duration 61 min, LM 5.0)<\/p>\n

The indications are however that, even after allowing for the bright moonlight, this was a below average Perseid maximum. The\u00a0IMO activity curve<\/strong>\u00a0( see\u00a0imo.net\/live\/perseids2014\/<\/a>\u00a0) indicates a\u00a0peak ZHR in the range 60-70<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Some of\u00a0Richard’s video captures\u00a0<\/strong>and one of his\u00a0wider view<\/strong>\u00a0images are reproduced\u00a0below:<\/p>\n

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Moonlight and cloud posed challenges for observers of the 2014 Perseid maximum. Maximum was predicted to occur only around 54 hours after a near-perigee Full Moon and with the Moon in the sky all night. In order to minimise theRead more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meteor-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t