I can tell you, there wasn't much to see this year. I ran hi-res video all night long and only counted ten meteors. The sky was more alive with airplanes and satellites. The planes seem to come in batches. I imagine they are package delivery routes: UPS, Amazon and the like. The satellites go in all directions and are generally dim but steady where the planes are bright and blinking.
Only the 3 AM hour produced no meteors. The "busiest" hour came at midnight (four).
I certainly did not grab frames of all ten meteors - they weren't worth the trouble - but I'll post a few for my own records. And I'll post a short video (one minute) of the meteor just after 2 AM. It wasn't much ... but it was the best I saw.
Time stamps are provided in the lower right of each frame. By the way, I used a Wyze V3 in "night vision" mode.
Perhaps a wasted night? But it's always fun to throw a line into the sky and see what bites.
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Later: I wondered if there way a way to take the individual frames from the video above (11/05/2021 at 2:12:04 AM) and layer them into a single frame so that the entire visible track of the meteor would be made visible. Thanks to Sequator160 there is. Unlike other graphics programs which take a four year graduate degree to understand - or a huge bankroll to afford - Sequator160 does this one thing - stacking - and it does it simply and for free.
Here's is the entire streak of that meteor. This is 16 frames (at 30 fps that's just over half a second) layered into a single image. The meteor wasn't bright and it pulsed a bit as it burnt up, but now the entre trail can be seen.
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