The usual Arizona monsoon weather kept the number of detected meteors down this past week. We did get one very clear night (Aug 28/29) which saw 38 meteors imaged. That’s a bit higher than expected and for awhile I wondered if a small outburst from an unknown shower had occurred. Instead it seems that all of the background active minor showers were a little more active that night.
Now that the Perseids are done for 2015, we can look forward to this year’s Orionids. These pieces of Comet Halley peak in mid-October. Though we have some time till the Orionids are worth staying up late for, the never tired SALSA3 camera can watch as this shower slowly ramps up in activity.
Obs Date(UT) Time TOT SPO ANT ORI SDA KCG AUR Oth SAL 2015-08-30 08h 25m 17 15 2 0 0 0 0 0 SAL 2015-08-29 09h 49m 38 26 2 3 2 3 2 0 SAL 2015-08-28 03h 14m 8 6 1 1 0 0 0 0 SAL 2015-08-27 04h 05m 18 14 1 2 1 0 0 0 SAL 2015-08-26 04h 43m 11 6 2 - 3 0 0 0 SAL 2015-08-25 00h 00m --- CLOUDS/RAIN --- SAL 2015-08-24 00h 20m 1 1 0 0 0 0 - 0 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 ORI - Orionids SDA - Southern Delta Aquariids KCG - Kappa Cygnids Oth - other minor showers
