Perseids in Shropshire? Nice dark sky, astro-friendly campsite

[Swithin StCleeve]

Just a reminder for you Shropshire/West Midlands folks, I'm arranging a low-key weekend of Perseid watching and general astronomy antics in Shropshire. Six quid a night, dark sky, friendly campsite. The details and some pictures are on my blog in the sig. Everyone welcome!

[mikey2000]

Sounds wonderful compared to my polluted Bedfordshire sky.  Also, it is rather cloudy here.  I wish you happy pereids!

[Stub Mandrel]

Darn, a bit late for me now! Half a dozen perseids including one small fireball and one through the finderscope so far - spent most time looking at a guiding graph imitating your blue remembered hills...

[Nogbad]

Some dappled cloud here but a fair bit of clear sky. Spent an hour sitting in the garden sipping a glass of malt with my daughter. Saw eight including a couple of really bright ones. Lovely evening but relatively quiet for Perseids. 

[Beulah]

Hope you had a good night, Swithin Stcleeve... I used to live near that campsite's location and it's very dark out that way... Around 6.2 NELM...

 

[Swithin StCleeve]

Thanks Beulah. Between the ten of us we saw 102 meteorites in two hours. I saw three stunners, very bright golden objects leaving smoke trails, fantastic!

What's NELM?

[Beulah]

5 minutes ago, Swithin StCleeve said:

Thanks Beulah. Between the ten of us we saw 102 meteorites in two hours. I saw three stunners, very bright golden objects leaving smoke trails, fantastic!

What's NELM?

Wow, testament to how dark the skies were..  Already looking forward to next year's show...

NELM is Naked Eye Limiting Magnitude - basically the faintest stars that can be seen by dark-adapted eyes at the Zenith on a moonless night. Of course, this is depending on one's eyesight!