Eta Aquarid meteor shower May 5

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Eta Aquarid meteor shower May 5

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Hi,

... fellow RMO'ers

Did you get something ?
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Re: Eta Aquarid meteor shower May 5

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50-144 is a very respectable peak :hamster: never heard of the Aquarids though but I do now :)

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Montana wrote: Wed May 05, 2021 5:44 pm 50-144 is a very respectable peak :hamster: never heard of the Aquarids though but I do now :)

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Re: Eta Aquarid meteor shower May 5

Post by Carbon60 »

Hi Rainer,

Thanks for sharing your data. Looking good there.

Here are my data up until this evening (5th). Apparently the peak is due overnight here in the UK 5-6th. So far the sky is clear, so maybe I'll take a look and see if I can see anything for myself directly.
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Rainer and Stuart...

Great to see the data on the meteors :bow

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Interesting data guys!


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Just had a quick look at my data; can't really see a noticable peak in activity as of yet. Will have another look tomorrow to see what the coming night brings.


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Had a look at the data again and did see a clear uptick in activity during the night. I guess we're a bit slow over here ;)

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Hi Jochen,

Well yes. We detected another peak on May 7th at 12:00 UTC.

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Re: Eta Aquarid meteor shower May 5

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Finally catching up on this.

Here are my data, up to date as of 12th. I also detected a second wave on the 7th. I guess these 'clouds' of particles are quite heterogeneous, so we should expect a few sporadic concentrations at times during the meteor shower period (18th April to 27th May in this case).
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