(meteorobs) CAMs from eastern Ontario

Pierre Martin pmartin at teksavvy.com
Sat May 24 07:24:28 EDT 2014


I just got back home from a successful 5 hour observation under mag 6.4 skies. Mainly clear skies with a few dissipating passing clouds.

The Camelopardalids (CAM) were a disappointment - just a weak background activity.  There was no sharp peak nor any hint of heightened activity near the predicted time of maximum.  Instead, I saw a few CAM's each hour of the night.  Overall, maybe 20-something CAM's... Still some beautiful meteors!  Brightest CAM was a gorgeous mag -3 meteor that crawled ever so slowly, with a two sec train (possibly photographed by Raymond Dubois who was observing with me). The CAM's seen at the beginning of night were mostly bright, while the ones seen near the end of the night were predominantly dim.  The brighter ones seemed to fragment (nebulous appearance) towards the end of their path.  I observed until bright twilight in case of a late maximum, but nothing more happened.

Perhaps this comet has been almost completely dormant in the past centuries after all.
I'll listen to the tape and transcribe my data later this weekend.

Clear skies!

Pierre Martin
Ottawa, Ontario


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