(meteorobs) alpha Lyncids on Dec 21?

meteoreye at comcast.net meteoreye at comcast.net
Tue Dec 18 13:33:34 EST 2007


Jan, thanks for bringing that up, sorry I missed it.

That is also in Dr Jenniskens recent book, where I should have caught it :(

That is 10:40 PM EST for the US east coast when the radiant will be 40 degrees elevation at 40 degrees north latitude.

Wayne
-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: "Jan Verfl" <verfl.meteors at seznam.cz> 

> Hello all, 
> 
> in their 2002 article "Meteor outbursts from long-period comet dust trails", 
> Esko Lyytinen and Peter Jenniskens predict a lot of possible 
> "far-comet-type" shower oubursts 
> 
> The point is that one of them is to happen on Dec 21, 03:40 UT from a 
> radiant close to the back feet of the Great Bear (but still technically in 
> Lynx, so they call it alpha-Lyncids) with RA 138, DEC +44. For European 
> observers it is a rather favourable timing - for example here in Prag, Czech 
> Republic, the radiant will be almost in zenith, still deep night and the 
> (not far from full) Moon just setting. 
> 
> The article does not give any information about the strenght of the shower, 
> but it is probably because this is much harder to obtain than the timing. 
> After the fantastic success of the Aurigid prediction that was carried out 
> by the same people, I believe there is a strong reason to go out and 
> observe! I thnik that Esko is a meteorobs-member, so he will hopefully 
> correct all the misinformation I may have given... 
> 
> Clear skies, 
> Jan 
> 
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