From: Dan Dennis <p_tc [at] yahoo.com>
Date: 9/01/2007 14:37 PDT


My name is Dan Dennis and I live in Chico, Ca. I made
an attempt to stay up this morning (after working a 12
hour shift) to see this once in a life time meteor
shower. To say the least I was fairly dissapointed. 

I have a feeling however that my viewing position was
probably not as well choosen as I originally thought.
My choosen viewing location was in the mountains
surrounding Hwy 70 near Concow, CA in Butte county.
The sky was relativly dark concidering the moon but I
was able to stay in the shade of a tree for most of
the night. But I was only able to see a handfull of
meteors(about 4 or 5 total) which were like none I've
ever seen. They mostly appeared near the edges of the
treeline spanning from North to North East. I was not
able to see the horizon line as the mountains were
blocking the view. 

In your opinion would it have been better to be able
to see lower into the N/NE sky? I'm asking because I
was hoping to photograph this meteor shower as I had
done with the Persieds earlier this month. Do you know
if it will be possible to see remnants of this meteor
shower over the next few days or was this morning the
only chance? I would definately like to be able to
capture these meteors on film even if the ZHR is lower
than the peak from this morning. 

I would really appreciate a relpy sometime today if
you can so I can be back at it again tomorrow morning.

Thank you for your time and the advance warning that
this meteor shower was going to occur.

Dan Dennis