Introduction This year is of special interest for the short lived OCT-shower, because according to the medium long period model, the calculated 1-revolution trail would pass quite close to the same place (relative to the Earth...
Read MoreIn good agreement with a prediction by E. Lyytinen , several video- and radio networks all over the world detected activity of the October Camelopardalid meteor shower ( (281 ) OCT ) on the 5th of October 2016, centered at ~...
Read MoreDuring this period the moon reaches it full phase on Saturday October 15th. At this time the moon will be located opposite the sun and will be in the sky all night long. This is the worst time of the month in which to try and view meteor activity as the bright moon will obscure all but the brightest meteors. Toward the end of this period the early evening hours will be free of moonlight but meteor activity will be low at that time.
Read MoreOctober Camelopardalid activity was caught by using worldwide radio meteor observation (35 observing stations in the world). You can see this result at the following web-site edited by Mr.Hirofumi SUGIMOTO (Japan):...
Read MoreThe weather in september was very favourable for CAMS. Most stations could collect data with their systems for at least 29 nights. As a result, a total of 3982 orbits could be collected, among these several streams from the IAU...
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