Author: Pierre Martin

On the late evening of August 19, I picked up Nicholas Zuger, we loaded all the scope and camera gear in my car, and off we went to Bootland Farm.  This night was more of test run of equipment, and doing some casual imaging....

A few nights later, Dan joined me and we met up with Jim Sofia at Bootland Farm.  Jim had his beautiful 18” and I set out my 12.5” PortaBall. The sky was very humid with poor transparency, but the seeing was remarkably good.  I...

I nearly skipped the following night because the sky took a lot longer to clear and I was tired from all the observing.  But it was finally looking like the west end would clear up at about 2am.  I’m very glad I took a chance...

After some much needed sleep, I went out two nights after the peak, this time on my own.  The sky was hazy due to forest fire smoke but clear. I setup at midnight, and observed for 3 hours.  I saw 66 meteors during that time...

During the day, Raymond Dubois and I discussed where to go for the peak of the Perseids.  We found the possibility of clouds encroaching from the south overnight, so we decided to drive 3 hours north into Quebec to La Verendrye...