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THE weather, fortunately, took a very favourable turn on August 3, and observations have been obtained nearly every night since, though moonlight has rather seriously interfered with the work and obliterated many small meteors. Up to August 9, and including that date, the display of Perseids was decidedly poor, and quite disappointed expectation. On August 7 and 9, particularly, there appeared to be very few meteors, but the moon was shining rather strongly in the east.
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DENNING, W. The Perseids of 1909. Nature 81, 189 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/081189a0
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