So my GF and I watched meteors all night, from 23:15 till 5:00. Along the way I marked every observed meteor and also some speciality about it if it had some color, did it leave trail or was it very bright. I also estimated meteor's magnitude. I sent my data to our observatory in capital city in case they are interested or wanna use data for something.
Conditions were ideal. Not a single cloud on the sky, New Moon etc. Beautiful experience overall.
In total we observed 313 meteors, so average ZHR of perseids of whole observation is 54.4, which means we pretty much saw meteor every single minute. Even better, most active period for meteors is from 2am till dawn, in that period we observed 204 meteors, so ZHR in that period was 68. Or, we saw more than 1 meteor per minute at average in those last 3 hours. Best ZHR was in period from 3:30-4:00 am and from 4:00 till 4:30 am. At both half hour periods ZHR was 78, biggest ZHR I've experienced in my life.
Of those 313 meteors, 54 of them had magnitude of 1 or lower. Or, they were exactly the meteors people want to watch since they were bright. ZHR of those meteor throughout the night is 9.4, or we observed almost 10 bright meteors every hour. There were more of them, but I didn't mark every single bright meteor that appeared at the edge of viewing field, but in total there could be 70 and more of them easily.
Of those 54, there were 27 of them that were brightest object on the sky at that moment. Awesome, right?
Many meteors left trail behind them, and multitude of them had orange color.
One meteor was very bright, almost like Jupiter, last almost 3 full seconds, was very long and in the end it shattered to 3 pieces that melted very fast. Highlight of whole watching.
Overall, awesome experience and I'd like to do that again next year. Maybe tonight there will be some watching included, but we definitely won't stay all night again.
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