(meteorobs) No Daytime Arietids for me this morning (June 7/8, 2016)

george gwgliba at gmail.com
Wed Jun 8 12:15:53 EDT 2016


I saw a couple of smoky-orange Daylight Arietids a couple of years ago at twilight near the peak
morning from Mathias, West Virginia, where I am now.  In 45 minutes I saw a 1st and a 2nd magn. 
Daylight Arietid.   I missed the peak this year due to clouds.

Starry Skies,
GWG



> On Jun 8, 2016, at 5:52 AM, Paul Jones <jonesp0854 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
>      Just got in from a 1.25 hour pre-dawn watch under mostly top notch skies down at the Matanzas Inlet site.  I didn't see any obvious candidates for the  Daytime Arietids (ARIs), although I did see 14 total meteors during the session and had a lovely golden-yellow -3 Anthelion. 
>      A couple of the sporadics did generally line up with the projected radiant, but it was still below the horizon at the time and their path length was all wrong for where I saw them in the sky, so I called them SPOs.
>      Oh well, the -3 ANT made the watch worthwhile  and I'm just glad I had a chance to get out at all and look or them, considering 24 hours earlier, I was caught in a TS Colin torrential downpour!  .  Did anyone else have any luck catching any?
> 
> Cear skies, Paul J in North Florida
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