(meteorobs) Current shower?

Robert Lunsford lunro.imo.usa at cox.net
Sun Aug 28 20:13:08 EDT 2011


James and All,

Your observation coincides with the start of the Aurigid meteor shower. I highly doubt that this shower is responsible for this activity as it is very weak away from the peak morning of September 1st. Even then the expected visual rates would be less than 5/hr.

Robert Lunsford

---- James Beauchamp <falcon99 at sbcglobal.net> wrote: 
> The previous week has been total silence.  Barely a sporadic radio hit after the PER's settled down.
> Last night it has picked up significantly.  Radar scatter is getting about 20 per hour at the peak rates, but it is in clusters.
> Clouds prevented any optical captures  :(
> 



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