(meteorobs) June Bootids active on June 23/24, 2010

Pierre Martin pmartin at teksavvy.com
Wed Jun 23 23:18:40 EDT 2010


Hello Javor,

That's excellent and thanks for your report!  Seems like quite  
significant rates, more than I was thinking would occur this year!  I  
was glancing over at the list all day long, hoping that someone would  
post a quick June Bootids report.  Very pleased to see that the JBO's  
indeed made a return!  It brings memories of that unforgettable night  
in 2004.

I was planing to be out all night, but sadly, here in eastern Ontario  
it's raining non stop, and we have areas with ongoing t-storm  
warnings :((  I would have to drive several hours to reach an area of  
semi-clear skies.  Even so, I'm monitoring the radar imagery, hoping  
for just a sucker hole to developp locally, but I'm not hopeful.   
Instead, the prospects for tomorrow evening look more favorable here.   
Maybe the JBO's will still be a bit active then?

Good luck to others out meteor hunting tonight!

- Pierre "clouded out in Ontario"





On 23-Jun-10, at 10:14 PM, Javor Kac wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> significant June Bootids activity was noticed during comet observing
> session on June 24, 2010, between 00h00m UT and 01h06m UT.
> During one hour of casual observing (about 30-40% time was spent
> skygazing) under LM 6.0 sky, eight June Bootids were seen by Jure  
> Atanackov
> a couple of other observers and myself.
> Their magnitude distribution was:
> 0(2) +1(2) +2(2) +3(2)
> During this interval only two sporadic meteors were seen.
>
> My meteor camera Orion1 detected 9 June Bootids and 8 sporadic  
> meteors in
> about 5 hours observing time in the night of June 23/24.
>
> American observers should be alert for the possible prolonged  
> activity. I
> hope some of you will persist despite the bright Moon!
>
> Clear skies!
> Javor
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