(meteorobs) Unusual Eta Taurid (ETT) Activity?

[Paul Jones]

Paul,
     I was out for an amazing hour this morning (200 - 300 EDT) before "pea
soup" fog rolled in and stopped the show, but I had a total of 13 meteors
come from the Taurid/Arietid complex during that hour!    I'll send a more
complete report soon.  I had three of them clearly line up well with the
eta Taurid radiant and five each line up well with the STA and the AAR
radiant that George mentioned.  There is definitely a lot of activity going
on in that area of the sky for sure right now!

More later, Paul J in north Florida

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 4:04 AM, Paul Zeller <pzeller1966 at gmail.com> wrote:

>   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
>>
>>
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