The story of the last week or so of May was the Camelopardalids (CAM). As mentioned in my last two posts, the CAMs had the potential to produce a very nice visual meteor display. Unfortunately, rates were much lower than expected and visual observers only counted a handful per hour on the peak night of May 23/24.
My video camera only picked up 4 CAMs on the peak night showing just how much of a let down the CAMs were. Other than the CAMs, the only other shower that showed much activity was the Southern May Ophiuchids (SOP).
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Obs Date(UT) Time TOT SPO ANT ETA SOP CCA CAM NSC JMC SAL 2014-05-31 07h 17m 11 10 0 - 1 - 0 0 0 SAL 2014-05-30 08h 26m 13 13 0 - 0 - 0 0 0 SAL 2014-05-29 00m 00m --- BAD WEATHER --- SAL 2014-05-28 06h 33m 12 10 2 0 0 - 0 0 - SAL 2014-05-27 08h 28m 10 5 2 0 2 - 1 0 - SAL 2014-05-26 07h 45m 10 8 1 0 1 - 0 - - SAL 2014-05-25 03h 42m 4 2 2 0 0 - 0 - - SAL 2014-05-24 08h 42m 15 11 0 0 0 - 4 - - SAL 2014-05-23 07h 38m 5 4 0 0 0 - 1 - - SAL 2014-05-22 00h 00m --- LOST DATA --- SAL 2014-05-21 07h 57m 8 7 0 1 0 0 0 - - SAL 2014-05-20 08h 33m 6 4 0 0 0 1 1 - - 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 - Antihelions ETA - Eta Aquariids SOP - Southern May Ophiuchids CCA - Chi Capricornids CAM - Camelopardalids NSC - Northern Omega Scorpiids JMC - June Mu Cassiopeiids
