Nice! -- Joe --- On Wed, 7/29/09, daniel turner <outwest112@yahoo.com> wrote: From: daniel turner <outwest112@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Delta Aquarid Meteor Shower To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 12:48 PM Brent: I went out to a dark site on monday night and set up at midnight after the moon had set. I stayed until 4 am and recorded the following. My primary interest was deep sky observing so I wasn't really looking for them, just recorded them when I noticed them. I believe there are currently three showers coming from the same part of the sky. Delta AQR as well a Alpha CAP and one in PSA (the southern fish). I wasn't able to tell the showers apart so I named them Alpha CAP if they came from that general direction. Showers only rarely become fast enough to hold my interest alone. I use a voice recorder to avoid using pencil and paper. This helps maintain my dark adaptation much better. Yahoo has a good discussion group for meteor observing. DT meteor at 0022 near Arcturus coming from direction of Serpent's head. meteor at 0052 near Altair coming from direction of Lyra. Meteor at 0100 in CYG coming from direction of AND. meteor at 0111 crossing spoon in SAG comming from AQL. meteor at 0126 near Beta UMI coming from BETA CYG. meteor at 0132 on horizon near M5 coming from BETA OPH. meteor at 0149 bright in AQR coming from PEG. meteor at 0229 in TRI coming from ARI. meteor at 0231 in PSA from ALPHA CAP. meteor at 0232 near M30 from ALPHA CAP. meteors at 0318 bright pair parallel at the same time. One went through UMI the other the head of DRA. ALPHa CAP direction. meteor at 0321 in DEL from the water jar of AQR. meteor at 0322 in CAM from Polaris. meteor at 0341 trough the water jar of AQR coming from PSA. --- On Wed, 7/29/09, Brent Johnson <mitaccio@hotmail.com> wrote:
From: Brent Johnson <mitaccio@hotmail.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Delta Aquarid Meteor Shower To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 8:48 AM
Last night I decided to spend some time and view the Delta Aquarids meteor shower. I've never watched one before. I knew this one to not be the most spectacular, but was underwhelmed. I viewed from 2230 to 0015. Didn't see much. 7 meteors in all. 2 were randoms, not part of the d.Aquarid (wrong paths). Anyone else watching the shower and have any input?
Brent Johnson
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