(meteorobs) Perseids and Aurigids

[skywayinc at aol.com]

Hi Everyone --

I'm in Utah right now, hoping for clear skies on Sunday night when
my family and I will be stationed at Bryce Canyon for this year's 
Perseid
peak.

For detailed information on the Aurigids, Peter is correct . . . check 
out
my article in the September issue of S&T.  Tomorrow (Friday) I will
have an essay in the "night Sky" section of SPACE.com concerning the 
Perseids, but there
will probably be a link to the first announcement made about the
Aurigids last year on SPACE.com.

My August 17 essay of Night Sky will have more complete coverage on
this year's Aurigids.

I wish that there was some reliable site on the Internet that can 
provide
those under daytime skies a chance to monitor the Aurigids by means of
radar or forward scattering.  Bill Cooke and Rob Suggs at NASA's 
Marshall Spaceflight
Center had such a site available a few years ago, but Bill recently 
informed me
that it is not as reliable/useful now.

-- joe rao




-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Jenniskens <pjenniskens at mail.arc.nasa.gov>
To: meteorobs at meteorobs.org
Sent: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 5:52 pm
Subject: (meteorobs) Perseids and Aurigids






Meteorobs readers, 
 

An observing campaign is gradually coming together for 

this year's Aurigid outburst on September 1. We hope 

to have a test flight during the Perseids. The mission 

website is at: 
 

http://aurigids.seti.org/ 
 

It has a usefull java applet to calculate the expected 

Perseid and Aurigid rates from your own observing site. 
 

We hope that many living in the western parts of the
continental 

USA, Alaska, Hawaii, and in Mexico will try to photograph 

the Aurigids with digital cameras and video camcorders, 

using a small field of view and low f-number lenzes 

to make the camera sensitivy enough for the meteors. 

We would like to know what was the brightest Aurigid seen 

during the outburst. Also, the red, green, and blue images 

of each color picture can give some information about how 

the meteoroids break, from the light curve for different 

components of the light emitted by the meteor. 
 

The Perseids are the best time to practice. 
 

For more information, attached is an article by Jeremie
Vaubaillon 

and myself that appeared in the August 7 issue of EOS. The 

September issue of Sky&Telescope has a nice article by Joe
Rao. 

Also, I believe that tomorrow Space.com will carry a
story. 
 


Dr. Peter Jenniskens 
 

The SETI Institute 

Carl Sagan Center 
 






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