(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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