[Meteorobs] FW: Sky check for Tau Herculids from southern Maryland

[Richard Taibi]

From: rjtaibi at hotmail.com
To: meteorobs at meteorobs.org
Subject: Sky check for Tau Herculids from southern Maryland
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 15:15:38 -0400



I was not able to get to my Bel Alton site to check on the shower's activity.  However, I decided to check from my home in Camp Springs, Maryland (also the home of Andrews AFB and Air Force One), southeast of Washington, DC.  I was out from 620 to 645 UT on 2 June.  The limiting magnitude and sky clarity was good (+4.7) from this light-polluted site, owing to the passage of a high pressure front at dusk on 1 June (UT).  My home site has substantial sky obstruction (30%) because of trees; but there was no cloud problem during this brief sky check.  Field center was Hercules' 'keystone' asterism, near the radiant.
 
I saw no meteors at all during the 25 minute watch, so my glimpse suggested no outburst of TAH this morning ('maximum' was predicted to be 545 UT).  Did anyone else take a better look and have better data?
 
Rich
 		 	   		  
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