The doldrums of the Spring meteor season continue. The fact that most nights also experienced a good share of cirrus and light cloudiness also haven’t helped meteor observing. The stretch of nights summarized below ends the night before the predicted maximum of the Lyrids. Unfortunately a storm system was also forecast to swing through AZ just in time to wreck the maximum.
Obs Date(UT) Time TOT SPO ANT ZCG LYR PPU TUS 2010-04-21 02h 26m 5 4 1 - 0 0 TUS 2010-04-20 04h 57m 7 7 0 - 0 0 TUS 2010-04-19 06h 14m 5 3 1 - 1 0 TUS 2010-04-18 03h 05m 1 1 0 - 0 0 TUS 2010-04-17 07h 00m 9 7 1 - 1 0 TUS 2010-04-16 02h 02m 1 0 1 - 0 0 TUS 2010-04-15 06h 13m 5 3 2 - - - TUS 2010-04-14 09h 23m 10 9 1 - - - TUS 2010-04-13 09h 25m 10 8 2 0 - - TUS 2010-04-12 09h 27m 8 6 2 0 - - TUS - Camera in Tucson operated by Carl Hergenrother SDG - Camera in San Diego operated by Bob Lunsford TotTime - Total amount of time each camera looked for meteors TOT - Total number of meteors detected SPO - Sporadics (meteors not affiliated with any particular meteor shower) ANT - Antihelions ZCG - Zeta Cygnids LYR - Lyrids PPU - Pi Puppids
The Transient Sky - Comets, Asteroids, Meteors 