As my aim was to observe these meters (Perseid) from a standpoint of a common person, so I lied down on floor on a mat and kept observing zenith. The symmetrical curves, keyed to the right-hand y-axes, show the Perseid radiant elevations for each site, while the irregular traces give the raw hourly meteor echo counts. Maximum rate was observed near the dawn time. Visual observers in England have no additional notes given. By contrast, UK observers had by far the better luck. The list of observers active in August follows, and as normal, it includes those who reported successful watches, and those whose efforts were thwarted by clouds but who still troubled to send in details. Some notes based on comments by observers are given too. The symmetrical curves, keyed to the right-hand, Observers’ Impressions Near the Perseid Peak, Two composite video-still Perseid images are shown here from those collected by Steve Evans in Gloucestershire. Apart from the traditional summertime problems with interference due to the Sporadic-E propagation mode, several European radio workers suffered equipment failures or power cuts at the least helpful times near the Perseid maximum. They leave behind a trail of debris of their material. As our ZHR graphs show though, Perseid ZHRs were already below their best by the time night had fallen over much of North America. On the night of 11th and 12th August 2002, for 5 hours and 45 minutes meteors were observed and their properties related to their occurrences were noted by hand. Although many meteors are parts of planets but our discussion in this articles is about Perseid which are remnants of Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. The third graph demonstrates the magnitude distributions for 1127 Perseids and 265 August sporadics seen in similarly better-sky conditions, along with corrected mean magnitudes. This point of origin called “radiant” lies in some constellation from where these meteors get their name. In general, the highest rates show up rather marginally compared to times to either side, reinforcing the plateau-like appearance. Many of the clearer sites still had problems with clouds at times, and few UK reports with limiting magnitudes better than +5.0 to +5.3 were received, which is why the limiting magnitude criterion for computing ZHRs and the magnitude distributions was relaxed from its normal, more rigorous, value of +5.5. The primary Perseid maximum, first seen in 1988 and followed throughout the 1990s (last seen in 1999), does now seem to have disappeared, much as expected. When Earth passes through the stream of meteoroids, and they enter Earth’s atmosphere, they appear to originate from a single point on the sky. How significant the brief 22h30m UT ZHR peak was is unclear; probably not very. Details from British locations on August 12-13, including a selection of newsgroup messages thoughtfully forwarded by other observers, indicated south-east England came off best for clearer skies. Times when this trace drops to zero show periods when no accurate recording was possible because of interference. The radio observers did not enjoy the best of times in August. Most people, though not all, seemed satisfied by what they saw however, as there were several good Perseid fireballs about, including a notable one around 22h01m UT spotted from nine sites across south-east England. Those elsewhere are listed with the country they observed from. Introduction. Mainland Europe had dismal conditions, with clouds and heavy rain across much of the Continent during the Perseids’ best. B is the distance of meteor from observer hence, Your email address will not be published. Applications Are Open For HEC Overseas Scholarships, Pakistan Council for Science and Technology, Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources. Those elsewhere are listed with the country they observed from. Two composite video-still Perseid images are shown here from those collected by Steve Evans in Gloucestershire. Observed Perseid rates sometimes reached one or two meteors a minute briefly, a good display, but well short of the strength of some seen in the past decade.