(meteorobs) Current shower?

[James Beauchamp]

Thanks, Robert.
Obviously, I can't tell the direction in these cases, but the brief rates are pretty high.  Also, the radar high frequency and high power lends to scatters of even the most dim meteors, many are not visible.  So who knows...
Hopefully, I'll get some good optical hits tonight.
James

--- On Sun, 8/28/11, Robert Lunsford <lunro.imo.usa at cox.net> wrote:

From: Robert Lunsford <lunro.imo.usa at cox.net>
Subject: Re: Current shower?
To: "Meteor science and meteor observing" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Cc: "James Beauchamp" <falcon99 at sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sunday, August 28, 2011, 7:13 PM

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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