2010 Perseid Meteor Shower Peak Evening

Edited highlights of the whole shower here, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YYpnXIOLJY

The best meteor is at 38 seconds and two good ones (well 3 but I copied one twice by mistake), one after the other at about 1min in. At 2min 10s there are 5 Perseids in the space of 3 minutes! Please note these are mostly Perseids but some are not, can you guess which?

The Perseid meteor shower as seen from County Down Northern Ireland. There was some cloud around that blotted out the entire hour between 2 and 3am :( But considering this is Ireland, a mostly clear night is pretty good going. In fact due to our increasingly cloudy and wet summers here, this was probably the best view I have had of the Perseids in 5 years. There were 2 borderline fireballs which is ok, but theres still tonight to go, so hopefully will get a monster before the Perseids leave for another year!

Still composite image here, http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=49394&l=25d4e3ca93&id=100001403...

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[ihearpoo]

Dude, seriously, Excellent video 1:22 lik if you could see the shooting star

[meteorlog]

@ihearpoo Thanks, I got lucky with the Perseids this year, all too often it is cloudy here (in Ireland) and we miss many astronomical events.

[ihearpoo]

@meteorlog No i mean, EXCELLENT VIDEO, yeah, wer u from?

[meteorlog]

@ihearpoo I am from Bangor, County Down, thanks!

[vibol03]

i was sooooooo looking forward to seeing this shower but it was a very cloudy night in where i live T.T

[meteorlog]

@vibol03 Don't worry the Geminids will be coming up soon and they are just as good, if not better than the Perseids!

[ihearpoo]

Dude, seriously, Excellent video

[izmalcheahmad]

TRANSFORMERS! :)

[onion01]

oh a firefly!

[spankthatfatcow]

Geminids was early this morning the peak was 2am.

it was sickkk.