(meteorobs) Eta Aquarids - May 6 brief summary

[Pierre Martin]

Was out for about an hour this morning, and saw a small handful of Eta  
Aquarids, towards dawn.  I never see much of this shower with the low  
radiant from 45 degrees latitude, and in some years I've seen nothing  
at all.  This morning started slow, but seemed to indicate reasonably  
active rates as dawn started, with a few bright meteors (best was a  
gorgeous mag -3, three sec trained, tracing a long path, climbing up  
in the east, followed by a few +1's, also trained).  Skies started  
poor with lots of residual clouds and humidity, but then improved to  
100% clear (mag 6.2-6.3 or so skies).  Low cloud bank in the east was  
unexpectedly helpful in blocking moonlight :)

Not sure if I can go out tonight, but conditions look good.

Will post a more complete report soon,

Pierre Martin
Ottawa, Ontario