(meteorobs) eta Aquarids from north Florida - May 6/7, 2013

Michel Vandeputte michelvandeputte at hotmail.com
Tue May 7 11:48:54 EDT 2013


Thank you Paul. 
That's the great spirit of our small community; sharing experiences and warnings for special meteor activity! 
Also a word of thank to mr M. Sato ;-) for sharing his predictions! 

Kind regards, 



Michel Vandeputte
 

Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 11:44:05 -0400
From: jonesp0854 at gmail.com
To: meteorobs at meteorobs.org
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) eta Aquarids from north Florida - May 6/7, 2013

Thank you, Michel and a big well done right back to you.  I might not have even gotten out at all for them this year if I hadn't seen your well-timed post.  You are my eta Aquarid hero this year...;o).   
 Clear skies to all, Paul in St. Augustine

On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Michel Vandeputte <michelvandeputte at hotmail.com> wrote:




Great result Paul! Also for the other people who witnessed or heared (radio) the ETA outburst.
I presume that I may use the word 'outburst'... 
I was clouded out this morning (May 7), but I think we would be able to see more than usual ETA meteors this morning as the normal 1-2 shower members. 


My data from previous night: 

http://vmo.imo.net/imozhr/obsview/view.php?id=11896


Long trains and good hunt to you all! 





Michel Vandeputte
 

Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 09:01:45 -0400
From: jonesp0854 at gmail.com
To: meteorobs at meteorobs.org

Subject: (meteorobs) eta Aquarids from north Florida - May 6/7, 2013

Hi again all,    Wow!  The ETAs are indeed still doing their thing up there.  I had a busy and productive pre-dawn hour observing them this morning from my side yard here in St. Augustine.  I had pristene clear skies and a temperature a little above 50 F/10 C (very cool for Florida in early May). A very enjoyable watch. Here's my data:

 May 6/7, 2013 0830 - 0930 UT (0430 - 0530 EDT) Observer:  Paul Jones, Location:  5 miles SW of St. Augustine, Florida, Teff 1.0, LM 6.5 Sky conditions:  Clear, Facing south. 19 eta Aquarids Mags: -1 (1), 0 (1), +1 (1), +2 (4), +3 (6), +4 (4), +5 (2) 

1 Anthelion Mag: +211 sporadics  Mags:  +2 (1), +3 (4), +4 (3), +5 (3) 31 total meteors Most of the ETAs came in single events, but there were three "mini-bursts" during the hour - two identical +3 ETAs hit within a split second of each other early in the hour, later,  one ETA and three sporadics all hit within about one minute of one another and finally near the end of the hour, three ETAs all hit within about 30 seconds of each other.  I was hoping for 20 total ETAs for the hour, but fell just short.  No complaints, though...;o).

 Although I didn't count them, the artifical satellites seemed very numerous this morning.  They almost rivaled the meteor count in number!   Seems as if near earth space is getting mighty crowded these days!

 A little over half of the ETAs left glittering trains that hung in the sky for a second or two after the meteor, I'm sure that is why radio returns for the ETAs have been good.   That and the long paths many of them have.  All in all the ETAs have proven to be a pleasant surprise and a great shower to observe this year.  Especially in a rather off year for meteor showers in 2013.!  I may give it another go in the morning as well,

 Clear skies all,  Paul in north Florida  

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