(meteorobs) low level activity from Tau Herculids shower?

[Richard Kramer]

I also observed two Herculids from Massachusetts during an informal 
session the night of May 22/23. While walking the dog around midnight 
EST, I stretched out for about 15 minutes in a gravel parking lot to 
see what was doing. During the first 5 or 7 minutes of that time, I 
saw two spectacular, slow, long, bluish white, meteors with faint, 
1/2 second duration, greenish trains, one at magnitude -3 and the 
second at -4 or perhaps -5. The second followed a long track down 
towards western Scorpio, the first passed right through the little 
dipper. I guess it was my good luck to have my eyes on the right 
piece of sky at the right time that night!

I would have liked to return for some formal observation without the 
dog, but unfortunately, I was operating on only 4 hours sleep the 
previous night and was simply "out of gas."

Richard

At 02:42 PM 5/25/2006, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I observed one Tau Herculid during a 2 hour session in the night 
>from May 23-24. Observing interval 21.30-23.30 UT. These meteors are 
>really impressive thanks to its slowness. Magnitude +2 and a trail 
>below Bootes. I still got to write down my data from this night.
>The other nights (22-23 and 24-25 May)  were clouded out..