Ivan Zuger and I enjoyed a very relaxing camping trip at Bon Echo Provincial Park (about 200 km west of Ottawa), from late July to early August. We had three beautiful clear nights, and I took advantage of the dark remote area...
Read MoreMeteor dynamicist Mikhail Maslov predicted that the May Camelopardalids would re-appear in 2019. In his abstract, he writes: “After an outburst of Camelopardalids shower in 2014, the next interesting year is 2019, when...
Read MoreOn the following morning (May 6), I observed for two hours under a crystal clear sky. It was a comfortable night with only the sound of spring peeper frogs and nocturnal birds! The Eta Aquariids (ETA) seemed a bit less active...
Read MoreI enjoyed two beautiful nights of observing the Eta Aquariids (ETA) meteor shower near its peak activity, this past weekend, during the last two hours towards dawn. From my location near Ottawa (Ontario), my latitude is 45...
Read MoreFor the Quadrantids peak night on Friday morning January 4th, I was ready to write it off due to very poor weather. I checked the clouds forecast at 1:30am (local time) just in case the situation might have improved, and it...
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