[meteorite-list] Southern Delta Aquarids METEOR SHOWER

From: Larry Lebofsky <lebofsky_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Jul 30 12:15:56 2006
Message-ID: <1154275727.44ccd98f584b1_at_hindmost.LPL.Arizona.EDU>

Hi Dean:

There are lots of sites that give the major showers. Here is one that also
gives estimated numbers per hour.

http://www.amsmeteors.org/showers.html#major


Just remember, the number that you will see will depend on how dark it is and
where the Moon is (light from the Moon).

The South Delta Aquarids (SDA) should have maxed out at about 20/hour and
there was not much Moon, so you may have been limited by sky brightness and by
the time of night (best after midnight as the Earth moves through the meteor
stream, like bugs on a wind screen)

Larry




Quoting dean bessey <deanbessey_at_yahoo.com>:

> I saw my first meteor shower last night at kumue
> observatory in Auckland. Probably not as impressive as
> some people have seen meteor showers but we we getting
> more than one a minute. Once I saw two at the same
> time, a skinny and a fat one that came from the same
> area (It was sort of cool and had the illusion of
> starting in the same place as if it broke apart).
> Apparantly at the star party 100 miles away last
> weekend there were lots also and my friend said that
> he saw one in his telescope (I missed the party
> unfortunately).
> We were stargazing and the meteors were unexpected.
> I got the name "Southern Delta Aquarids" a few minutes
> ago from searching google wondering if there was
> indeed supposed to be a meteor shower going on now but
> I dont know if I have the name right.
> This was my first ever meteor shower and the first
> time I was ever able to look up and really expect to
> see a meteor. I had my 4 month old baby with me so it
> was kind of special - even if it was only one meteor a
> minute. How does that compare to normal meteor
> showers?
> The only negitave was that none appear to have fallen
> all the way down.
> Cheers
> DEAN
>
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Received on Sun 30 Jul 2006 12:08:47 PM PDT