Author: Kai Gaarder

The weather forecast for September 5/6 was excellent and provided a good opportunity to study the late Aurigids, the early September Epsilon Perseids, and the mysterious Chi Cygnids. The night came as promised with calm and...

The long-awaited maximum night of the Aurigids showed up with excellent weather. Some excitements were attached to whether the Aurigids would show a minor enhancement around 00:55 UT as predicted by Sato (2021). I had decided to...

This was the second night of Aurigid observations from my homeplace in Norway. The night arrived with a very transparent sky, and I hoped to observe an increase in the Aurigid rates from 2 nights ago. Some thin drifting clouds...

After observing the maximum of the Perseids under a bright moonlit sky, I was looking forward to observing the Aurigids under dark skies. My first chance came on August 27, and after some hours of early sleep, I went out to my...

The observation of this years Perseid maximum had to be delayed half an hour due to clouds. That left only 2,5 hours suitable for meteor observations before morning twilight. The moon was higher in the sky than the night before,...