On this late July session at Bootland Farm, I had the company of a curious deer who’d approach and sniff the grass around me. It was mild at +15C and there was a lot of mosquitoes but the Thermacell once again worked wonders! Nice sky, with average transparency except for some passing cirrus clouds around 1:30am. A half hour later, the sky improved. Except for the occasional rustlings from the deer, it was a quiet night.

Between 1:10-3:50am (2.5 hours), I saw 58 meteors (including 20 S. delta Aquariids, 8 Perseids, 4 Capricornids, 3 Gamma Draconids, 3 Anthelions, 2 N. Delta Aquariids, 2 July Pegasids, one phi Piscid and 15 sporadics).

The best was a mag -1 sporadic at 2:02am; it was majestically slow, blue-green and faded away very gradually.

July 27/28 2017, 05:10-07:50 UT (01:10-03:50 EDT)
Location: Bootland Farm (Stewartville), Ontario, Canada
(Long: -76 deg 29′; Lat: 45 deg 23′)

Observed showers:
gamma Draconids (GDR) – 18:44 (281) +50
alpha Capricornids (CAP) – 20:24 (306) -09
Anthelion (ANT) – 21:16 (319) -16
Northern delta Aquariids (NDA) – 22:15 (334) -04
Southern delta Aquariids (SDA) – 22:42 (340) -16
Piscids Austrinids (PAU) – 22:56 (344) -24
July Pegasids (JPE) – 00:16 (004) +16
Perseids (PER) – 01:52 (028) +54
eta Eridanids (ERI) – 02:16 (034) -16
phi Piscids (PPS) – 02:44 (041) +35
psi Cassiopeiids (PCA) – 00:50 (013) +64

05:10-06:10 UT (01:10-02:10 EDT); clear; 3/5 trans (some clouds in west, dissipating); F 1.00; LM 6.50; facing SSE50 deg; teff 1.00 hr; 15C
SDA: ten: -1; +2; +3; +4(5); +5(2)
PER: four: +1(2); +2; +3
GDR: three: +1(2); +2
CAP: one: +5
PPS: one: +2
Sporadics: five: -1; +2(2); +3; +5
Total meteors: Twenty-four

06:10-07:10 UT (02:10-03:10 EDT); clear; 3/5 trans (a few clouds in FOV); F 1.05; LM 6.44; facing S50 deg; teff 1.00 hr; 14C
SDA: seven: +1(2); +2(2); +3(2); +4
PER: four: +1; +2; +4(2)
CAP: three: +1; +2(2)
ANT: two: +2; +5
NDA: two: +2; +3
JPE: two: 0; +3
Sporadics: seven: +1; +2(2); +3; +4(2); +5
Total meteors: Twenty-seven

07:19-07:50 UT (03:19-03:50 EDT); clear; 3/5 trans; F 1.00; LM 6.44; facing S50 deg; teff 0.48 hr; 13C
SDA: three: +3(2); +5
ANT: one: +4
Sporadics: three: +2; +3; +4
Total meteors: Seven

Clear skies,

Pierre Martin
Ottawa, Ontario