It has been awhile since I last posted. Even though I’ve been quiet, my meteor camera has been running almost every night (though I did forget to turn it on one night 🙂 ).
Early April continues a period of no active major showers. The period does contain many active minor showers. Though most produce little activity, the Sigma Leonids (SLE) showed a consistent level of low activity through out early and late April. The SLEs are on a low inclination Jupiter-family comet or near-Earth asteroid orbit.
My next post will present the meteors from late April when we’ll see some activity from a major shower.
Obs Date(UT) Time TOT SPO ANT ZSE ZCY LVI DAL SLE PPU SAL 2014-04-15 09h 37m 9 9 0 - - - 0 0 0 SAL 2014-04-14 09h 44m 14 11 2 - - - 0 1 - SAL 2014-04-13 09h 21m 10 7 0 - - 0 0 3 - SAL 2014-04-12 00h 42m 1 1 0 - - 0 0 0 - SAL 2014-04-11 03h 29m 2 2 0 - 0 0 0 0 - SAL 2014-04-10 09h 37m 8 5 2 - 0 0 1 0 - SAL 2014-04-09 09h 27m 11 8 1 - 0 0 0 2 - SAL 2014-04-08 09h 02m 11 9 0 - 0 1 0 1 - SAL 2014-04-07 09h 46m 16 16 0 - 0 0 0 - - SAL 2014-04-06 09h 44m 13 9 3 - 1 0 0 - - SAL 2014-04-05 10h 02m 7 5 1 - 1 0 - - - SAL 2014-04-04 09h 55m 10 5 3 - 0 2 - - - SAL 2014-04-03 09h 33m 11 10 1 0 0 - - - - SAL 2014-04-02 09h 29m 14 14 0 0 0 - - - - SAL 2014-04-01 00h 00m "FORGOT to TURN on CAMERA" SAL - SALSA3 camera in Tucson (Carl Hergenrother) VIS - Visual observations from Tucson (Carl Hergenrother) Time - 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 - AntihelionsZSE - Zeta Serpentids ZCY - Zeta Cygnids LVI - Lambda Virginids DAL - Delta Aquiliids SLE - Sigma Leonids PPU - Pi Puppids
The Transient Sky - Comets, Asteroids, Meteors 