(meteorobs) Unusual Eta Taurid (ETT) Activity?

[Paul Zeller]

  Thanks for the reply. This is all fascinating! As much as I wanted to
follow up observing these and especially the Orionids, a persistent cirrus
cloud presence has prevented this for the last several nights. Hope others
have better luck.
On Oct 21, 2015 7:58 PM, "Robert Lunsford" <lunro.imo.usa at cox.net> wrote:

> Paul and All,
>
> I just received observations from Oct, 21 by veteran observer Terrence
> Ross who indicated he counted 9 Eta Taurids during 4 hours of viewing. This
> is not as strong as the rates you observed but indicates the source is
> still active. I believe these meteors have always been there this time of
> year but were called sporadics as no one knew of this radiant until
> recently. It will be interesting to continue to monitor this source from
> year to year to see if the activity continues.
>
> Robert Lunsford
>
>
> ---- Paul Zeller <pzeller1966 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >   Hello all. I had a couple of hours of predawn observing this morning
> > (Sunday Oct. 18) from my back yard with very clear skies (LM = 5.2).
> Though
> > I was primarily looking for Orionid activity, and saw a few, what really
> > got my attention was that from 7:30 - 8:30 UT I saw four meteors that
> > seemed to be members of the Eta Taurids. Three appeared within the same
> ten
> > minute time span. They seemed to be the right speed and could be traced
> > back to the area shown as the radiant on Robert Lunsford's latest Meteor
> > Activity Outlook article. The shower description seemed to indicate that
> > only one or less should be seen and that maximum activity is still six
> > nights away. Has anyone else noticed an unusually high number of these
> > meteors from this shower?
> >
> >   Paul Zeller
> >   Indianapolis, IN, USA
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.meteorobs.org/pipermail/meteorobs/attachments/20151022/c01f57de/attachment-0001.html