The past few nights have seen wild swings in meteor rates at our two camera locations in Tucson and San … More
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In The Sky This Month – February 2009
This feature highlights a number of meteor showers, comets and asteroids which are visible during the month of February 2009. … More
Jan 27/28/29/30/31 Meteors and the Alpha Centaurids
Rates have been fairly constant over the past week. For the SALSA camera in Tucson, about 15 meteors, give or … More
Jan 25/26/27 Meteors
The mutli-day rain storm that was forecast to hit CA and AZ didn’t happen. Though the rain stayed away the … More
Jan 24/25 Meteors
Last night was the first clear night in Tucson since the middle of last week. Even with the clear conditions, … More
Jan 17/18/19/20/21 Meteors
It has been awhile since I posted the nightly video meteor results. Most of these results are from last weekend … More
More on the California Fireball – Jan 18
More reports of Sunday evening’s fireball have been posted on this blog and the American Meteor Society Fireball page. Thanks … More
Jan 16/17 Meteors
A bout of clouds kept the meteor count low in Tucson last night. In San Diego, Bob reports that “Meteor … More
Jan 14/15/16 Meteors
From Bob’s notes for Jan 14/15: “Rates were a bit stronger tonight. A slow increase should be expected as the … More
Jan 13/14 Meteors
The relatively low levels of meteor activity that we’ve seen over the past week continues. This is due to a … More
The Transient Sky - Comets, Asteroids, Meteors 