A New Meteor Showever? - An Article From Sky & Telescope

[kt4hx]

You might want to check out the below link and be on guard the evening of 30/31 May. As we pass through the debris field of the fractured comet Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3, its "possible" we might see some activity. Or, we may not. Will it be a dud, will it be major, or something between the extremes. Check it out and be on guard should your skies be clear that evening. Good luck!


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[Frankskywatcher]

This is what I found out about it but I can never stay awake late into the night I’m an old fart !

[Lady Fraktor]

Thank you for the information Alan, I actually have both of those nights off and the forecast is for only 40% cover.

[KingNothing13]

Interesting - don't know if I will be able to drag my butt out of bed....but we will see.....

[Bigzmey]

Thanks for the heads up Alan!

[kt4hx]

The good thing is the radiant point is just northwest of Arcturus, which means it will be riding high when we achieve astronomical darkness around 2230 hours. So one doesn't have to stay up inordinately late to at least have a look to see if anything shows up. I am 68 yrs old, but can stay up for a while if I have good reason.

[Ylem]

Here's some more info on Space Weather https://spaceweather.com/

[Makuser]

Hi Alan. I saw this too on my online subscription to S&T too. The "experts" are quoted as predicting a result range from a "great show" to a "no show". You won't know until you go out and look. But the peak on the east coast of the US is at 1:00 a.m. early Tuesday morning and that's a bit late for this old guy (76), so I'll see how I feel at that time. Thanks for this occasion update Alan and the best of wishes for clear skies to all who go out and attempt to get a "look see".

[kt4hx]

Thanks Marshall. Even though the supposed peak is around 0100, we should have some sense of what its going to do prior to that. I am at our dark site house and will be out galaxy hunting but will keep an eye out for activity. I will likely be out until around 0100 and while that is late for me as well (68) I will do my best!

[GCoyote]

Anything so far?

[bobharmony]

Gray skies here. Just thin enough to let Vega barely shine through. Good night, all.

Bob

[GCoyote]

Sky quality in the Mid-Atlantic states was decent enough but I only saw one erratic, well off any trajectory from the proposed radiant.

[helicon]

I didn't see anything. But it was cloudy. The local newspaper here said there could be thousands per hour, but I suppose it would take a lot to pass the annual Perseid shower.

[kt4hx]

I was out last night at our dark site house until around 0200 hours. While I was of course engaged in galaxy hunting per usual, I did sit back in a chair more frequently and for longer times than normal. When I first went out around 2200 hours I did catch a bright one coming from the radiant and streaking across Coma and above Leo. Then twice while looking through the 8x50 optical finder while down in Centaurus I saw two dimmer meteors heading south from the general direction of the radiant. Of course they may simply have been two of the multitudes that hit our atmosphere daily rather than associated with the event. So looks like it was pretty much a bust based what I did and didn't see. Oh well, nothing ventured as they say.

[Makuser]

Hi Alan. Well, I made it up to 11pm and fell asleep. However, I did wake up at 3am, got dressed and then went outside for awhile. Nothing to see here but at least I tried.

[Bigzmey]

Alan, Gary and Marshall, thank for keeping an eye on it for us. If I was at the dark site I would have been out. Since I was at home under LP skies and the chances of it to be "meteor storm" was close to zero, I have watched Netflix instead.

[sdbodin]

Went out a 10pm PDT, the predicted peak, and was clouded out, back out a 11pm mid-level clouds cleared leaving a gauze of hi-cirrus, estimated 4th mag sky. Saw one, a rare point meteor, near the predicted radiant west of Bootes. It was quick and bright est -2 mag, yellow orange, I'll give it a 70% chance of being real meteor from the storm. That's it nothing else in a quick 5 minutes glance.

Clear skies,
Steve

[GCoyote]

Looks like folks out west had better luck.

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-n ... KNGVv8gKK0

[pakarinen]

Looks like folks out west had better luck.

The few reports posted by club members here indicate it was much ado about (next to) nothing.