(meteorobs) Camelopardalids from Oregon May 24

Wes Stone howard048 at centurytel.net
Sat May 24 05:38:49 EDT 2014


I can report sparse but definite Camelopardalid activity. I observed from 5:30-8:45 UT and counted 11 Camelopardalids, 16 sporadics and 3 Anthelions. Limiting magnitude ranged from 6.4-6.7.

The Camelopardalids were faint with a mean magnitude of 3.2 (mean magnitude of the sporadics was 2.7). The brightest one was magnitude +1 and this was especially impressive because it was near the radiant and took several seconds to traverse its short path. It had a golden, teardrop-shaped head. A magnitude +2 Camelopardalid that passed very near Polaris was almost as impressive.

The first Camelopardalid appeared at 6:05UT, and the last at 8:29. I saw no meteors of any kind during the last 16 minutes of the watch. With such low activity, there wasn’t much that could be called clumping, although 3 Camelopardalids in 6 minutes around 7:30 got my hopes up.

Definitely nothing to justify the media attention, but not an absolute bust.

Wes Stone
Chiloquin, OR
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