(meteorobs) f-Herculids

Sergei Schmalz sergiuspro at yahoo.de
Mon Mar 7 09:18:12 EST 2011


Good morning, all!

In WGN 37:3 (2009) Sirko Molau and Javor Kac described a new possible meteor shower of f-Herculids (FHE) active from 1st to 9th of March, with an extremely weak maximum at 346° solar longitude (corresponds to approx. 3:00UT 2011-03-07) and having entry velocity at 44 km/s.

I've been out on visual observations for four nights, on the 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th of March with observation Teff 2, 2, 2.5 and 2.5 hours accordingly. Except for the 5th I saw one possible FHE each night. The last one on the 7th was even a radiant-close one.

So, I am wondering if anyone else has been observing last days and can comment on the activity of f-Herculids?

With best regards
Sergei Schmalz
(Wiesbaden, Germany)





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