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<blockquote data-quote="Rob Lancaster" data-source="post: 175753" data-attributes="member: 6154">You know, I pretty much knew this but this time complacency can reduce the count for the showers peak, peak...Here's what I mean. We've done in the past several multi night missions to see where the best time of the Perseid shower will peak. Our data showed that the morning of the 13th was the best time for Hawaii. But here's the thing. The shower at that time for Hawaii is just warming up because the peaks plateau usually really peaks out at 11:00 or so AM HST. Now obviously the suns up and you can't see them. The radiant is still up in the sky at that time so there's plenty of meteors still fall'n..This year with the bad weather and the fire bug. We had a bad count. But if we went out the next night, things would obviously be different. DOH!!! Well maybe,, DOH!! You just never know. You just need to be in the right place at the right time... Like we were in Dec. 2009 for the Geminids. We recorded 772 colorful flashy meteors from 10:00pm to sunrise. What a mission, LOL!This is our meteor counter.A nice home made addition to the mission..In the dark, the box has a nice soft red hue. And the large red three digit readout is awesome.Thanks Randy for the reminder of the meteor streams variances. Lesson learned.&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/unexpected-perseid-outburst-wows-viewers/?utm_source=EarthSky+News&amp;utm_campaign=e1e222ec71-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c643945d79-e1e222ec71-394410685" target="_blank">| EarthSky</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rob Lancaster, post: 175753, member: 6154"] You know, I pretty much knew this but this time complacency can reduce the count for the showers peak, peak... Here's what I mean. We've done in the past several multi night missions to see where the best time of the Perseid shower will peak. Our data showed that the morning of the 13th was the best time for Hawaii. But here's the thing. The shower at that time for Hawaii is just warming up because the peaks plateau usually really peaks out at 11:00 or so AM HST. Now obviously the suns up and you can't see them. The radiant is still up in the sky at that time so there's plenty of meteors still fall'n.. This year with the bad weather and the fire bug. We had a bad count. But if we went out the next night, things would obviously be different. DOH!!! Well maybe,, DOH!! You just never know. You just need to be in the right place at the right time... Like we were in Dec. 2009 for the Geminids. We recorded 772 colorful flashy meteors from 10:00pm to sunrise. What a mission, LOL! This is our meteor counter. A nice home made addition to the mission.. In the dark, the box has a nice soft red hue. And the large red three digit readout is awesome. Thanks Randy for the reminder of the meteor streams variances. Lesson learned. [URL="https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/unexpected-perseid-outburst-wows-viewers/?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=e1e222ec71-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-e1e222ec71-394410685"]| EarthSky[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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