Perseids 2005, visual

The 2005 Perseids exhibited a normal to rather low maximum activity level. There is no clear peak time, but this can still be due to the limited amount of data. For the moment we have to assume that the maximum of the 2005 Perseids was broad, with best rates between Aug 12, 1h and Aug 13, 3h UT reaching a ZHR of about 90.

Solar longitudes refer to equinox J2000.0. ZHRs were computed with a population index of 2.0 which turned out to be a good guess from a first evaluation of the magnitude distributions. No personal perception coef- ficients and no additional zenith correction apart from sin(hR) are applied.

We are grateful to all the observers who contributed to the analysis. The following list is STILL INCOMPLETE because of ongoing data utilization. An update with the full data set will be issued in a week or two.

Rainer Arlt (Germany), Sergey Avlas (Belarus), Abdullah Ayadi (Saudi arabia), Pável Balderas (Bolivia), Marija Bankovic (Serbia), Geert Barentsen (Belgium), Szende Barabás (Romania), Ivana Belic (Serbia), Luis R. Bellot Rubio (Spain), Felix Bettonvil (Netherlands), Danijela Bobic (Serbia), Andreas Buchmann (Switzerland), Tao Cheng (China), Stefan Cikota (Croatia), Tibor Csörgei (Slovakia), Hani Dalee (Jordan), Nadka Dankova (Bulgaria), Zolfaqar Daneshi (Iran), Milan Darijevic (Serbia), Kristof Debruyn (Belgium), David Dickinson (USA), Judith Dijkstra (Netherlands), Maurizio Eltri (Italy), Yuwei Fan (China), Antal Fodor (Hungary), Balázs Fodor (Hungary), Stela Frencheva (Bulgaria), Ofer Gabzo (Israel), Manuel García Aguinar (Cuba), George W. Gliba (USA), Shelagh Godwin (UK), William Godley (USA), Cándido Gómez Benítez (Spain), Victor B. Gomez Valverde (Spain), Robin Gray (USA), Peter S. Gural (USA), Amir Hassanzadeh (Iran), Roberto Haver (Italy), Veli-Pekka Hentunen (Finland), Ernesto Mota Hernández (Cuba), Zoltán Hevesi (Hungary), Ken Hodonsky (USA), Kamil Hornoch (Czech Republic), Yandong Hu (China), Richard Huziak (Canada), Ali Jaber (Saudi arabia), Carl Johannink (Netherlands), Manos Kardasis (Greece), Gergö Kovacs (Hungary), Mirna Kramar (Croatia), Vladimir Krumov (Bulgaria), Ralf Kuschnik (Germany), Jens Lacorne (France), Adrian Lelyen (Cuba), Justine Lepage-Gouin (Canada), Peter van Leuteren (Netherlands), Anna S. Levina (Israel), Semion Levin (Israel), Ming-hui Liang (China), Maria Rosa López Ramírez (Portugal), Robert Lunsford (USA), Hartwig Lüthen (Germany), Shouyuan Mao (China), Felix Martinez (USA), Stefan Martinka (Slovakia), Tony Markham (UK), Mikhail Maslov (Russia), Alastair McBeath (UK), Bruce McCurdy (Canada), Kevin McCurdy (Canada), Koen Miskotte (Netherlands), Sirko Molau (Germany), Thom Morgan (USA), Markku Nissinen (Finland), Francisco Ocaña Gonzalez (Spain), Zsolt Oláh (Hungary), Izidor Pelajic (Croatia), Carles Pineda Ferré (Spain), Szaniszló Prohászka (Hungary), Hamid Rahkoi (Iran), Jürgen Rendtel (Germany), Petra Rendtel (Germany), Arnold Rivera (Canada), Mileny Roche Lamas (Cuba), Alejandro Sánchez de Miguel (Spain), Robin Scagell (UK), Alex Scholten (Netherlands), Ivan M. Sergey (Belarus), George Spalding (UK), David Stine (USA), Matrin Stojanovski (Macedonia), Wesley Stone (USA), Boris Stromar (Croatia), David Swann (USA), Diana Tampu (Romania), Ouyang Tianjing (China), Marija Todorovic (Serbia), Marko Toivonen (Finland), Blanca Troughton Luque (Portugal), Tenho Tuomi (Canada), Michel Vandeputte (Belgium), William Watson (USA), Larry Wood (Canada), Penko Yordanov (Bulgaria), Kim S. Youmans (USA), Ilkka Yrjölä (Finland)