(meteorobs) Ursid outburst in progress - from Peter Brown

[Pierre Martin]

Hopelessly overcast in eastern Ontario as well!  We have a freezing rain warning to make matters worse.

Pierre






> On Dec 22, 2014, at 10:48 PM, Richard Taibi <rjtaibi at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Sorry- sky is overcast and raining at 3:45 UT on the 23rd.  Forecast for the metro Washington, D.C. area is clouds and rain until Thursday the 25th.  I wish I could see this!
> Richard Taibi
>  
> Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 04:21:02 +0100
> From: jens.lacorne at gmail.com <mailto:jens.lacorne at gmail.com>
> To: meteorobs at meteorobs.org <mailto:meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
> Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Ursid outburst in progress - from Peter Brown
> 
> Hello Peter,  Bill,  and all !
> I just return from an observation here in south-eastern France, started at 21h30 UT and ended at 01h15  UT. I saw a good activity from the ursids : a dozen per hour under a sky with LM 5-5,5 and a low  radiant. I think we can have a ZHR nearly 50 in this conditions .
> Reports come later.
> I hope that other observers can confirm this outburst.
> Clear skies !
> Jens Lacorne 
> Le 23 déc. 2014 03:44, "Bill Cooke" <cookewj at comcast.net <mailto:cookewj at comcast.net>> a écrit :
> >>
> >> FYI, looks like there is a fairly strong Ursid outburst in progress – started in the last hour or so. Not sure of the ZHR/rates but looks to be quite strong – many tens per hour at least.
> >> P
> >>  
> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> Dr. Peter Brown
> >> Director – Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration
> >> Canada Research Chair in Meteor Astronomy
> >> Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
> >> University of Western Ontario
> >> London, Ontario
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Bill
> >
> > (Sent from my iPhone)
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > meteorobs mailing list
> > meteorobs at meteorobs.org <mailto:meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
> > http://lists.meteorobs.org/mailman/listinfo/meteorobs <http://lists.meteorobs.org/mailman/listinfo/meteorobs>
> >
> 
> _______________________________________________ meteorobs mailing list meteorobs at meteorobs.org <mailto:meteorobs at meteorobs.org>http://lists.meteorobs.org/mailman/listinfo/meteorobs <http://lists.meteorobs.org/mailman/listinfo/meteorobs>_______________________________________________
> meteorobs mailing list
> meteorobs at meteorobs.org <mailto:meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
> http://lists.meteorobs.org/mailman/listinfo/meteorobs <http://lists.meteorobs.org/mailman/listinfo/meteorobs>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.meteorobs.org/pipermail/meteorobs/attachments/20141222/051a8ec6/attachment-0001.html