I wish I had more to report, meteor-wise, but it has been a rather cloudy monsoon season here in Tucson. That’s even considering it hasn’t rained much. It seems like every day is fairly clear but a nice cap of clouds form at night. As a result, many nights result in only a single meteor detection or none at all.
July is a fun month to watch meteors as many showers are active. The 6 showers listed below (in addition to the always present Sporadics and Antihelions) are just the best of a large number of showers visible this month.
Obs Date(UT) Time TOT SPO ANT PPS SCA CAN CAP MIC JPE SAL 2014-07-15 00h 00m --- Clouds All Night --- SAL 2014-07-14 00h 17m 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 SAL 2014-07-13 02h 05m 3 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 SAL 2014-07-12 01h 24m 7 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 SAL 2014-07-11 00h 16m 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 SAL 2014-07-10 00h 10m 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 SAL 2014-07-09 07h 49m 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 SAL 2014-07-08 02h 46m 12 6 0 3 0 1 0 1 1 SAL 2014-07-07 07m 13m 7 4 0 0 1 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 PPS - Phi Piscids SSS - Southern Sigma Sagittariids SCA - Sigma Capricornids CAN - c Andromedids CAP - Alpha Capricornids MIC - Microscopiids JPE - July Pegasids
The Transient Sky - Comets, Asteroids, Meteors 