We are very fortunate to have upon us a triad of meteor showers in the form of the Aquariads, Capricornids & Piscis Austraids.
The story is up on my blog at night sky secrets.
Would love to hear of your viewing experience.
Thanks for that. I am fortunately at a dark site so will see what I can see.
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Regards alex
Thanks Alex I appreciate your kind words. I just hope you get to see some of these meteors. Sitting out watching showers like this one gives one the time to pause and think, what a busy and dynamic place our solar system is. When the debris of 3 comets with orbits inside that of the earth can put on a show like this from their dusty debris.
Great timing Ian I was out last night, and saw about 15 over a couple of hours (including a burst of about 5 in a few minutes) and noticed that a few of them came from a totally different direction.
Headed out at 12am and saw about 8 in the first 20 minutes, then as quietened and a moderate amount of cloud cover.
These have been short and fast, and radiating from just below Capricornus.
Still cloudy out 2o min later.
All clouds here since but Monday night spotted a single NE > SW across zenith quite slow, white trail, no end burst. Keep looking up just in case but must have just been an early arrival. 20:55
Well, I had a last look this morning. In 1/2 an hour I saw 5 Aquarids, I bright Piscis Austraid & 1 sporadic. With a clear dark sky and an unrestricted view this would have been an awesome shower to observe. As it was, I enjoyed what I was able to observe anyhow :-)