I went to a dark site on Thursday night when there was much broken cloud and some clear sky periods. Perseus was well in view. I spent around 90 minutes from midnight to 1.30AM and saw about 20-25 Perseids, a couple of stray meteorites, and several satellites in that time.

The Perseids varied a great deal from very dull, around a second's worth low intensity burn outs to some extremely bright and fast moving 'trailers' lasting over a second.

Quite a nice show all told.

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