[AZ-Observing] Re: Possible meteor shower (Jan 30th 5am GMT +8)
- From: Brian Skiff <bas@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2017 11:37:11 -0700
On Wed, 2017-02-01 at 23:18 +0800, Derrick Lim wrote:
On the morning of Jan 30th (5am) GMT+8, we observed a unusually high number
of meteors with radiant in the vicinity of the "head" of Scorpius. We
observed about 15 meteors in an hour in a very casual manner (we were more
focused on photographing the galactic center). So I'm just wondering is
this a known meteor shower or something new.
I checked with the International Meteor Organization site and there is a
shower from Centaurus but it Peaks on Feb 6th.
Subsequent observation attempts of this possible shower have been hampered
by poor weather, so I hope if anyone noticed an elevated number of meteors
emanating from the head Scorpius please share your observations. Thank you!
There are several all-sky meteor networks in operation
around the world, including several in the US Southwest.
In principle these should have picked up any activity.
In the past several years these systems have redefined the
meteor-shower business and put it on solid observational
foundation, which has been lacking since meteor showers
were discovered. The systems basically run at video rates,
and record time, coordinates, etc, far better than visual
observers can. So the events and their radiants are far
better defined than previously (and plenty of supposed
showers shown not to exist).
You might have a look at the CAMS project, run by
Peter Jenniskens at SETI, to see what's going on:
http://cams.seti.org
\Brian
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