Camelopardalids meteor shower southern hemisphere 2014

[crustytheclerk]

Hearing a bit of this for the Northern hemisphere. Seems like the peak may be during our day on Saturday in Eastern Australia but it would seem worthwhile to drag the banana lounge and thermos out for a few hours early tomorrow morning, cloud permitting?

[pluto]

I've read there's a reasonable chance of observing/imaging impacts on the Moon, which would be awesome.

[JB80]

Camelopardalis is a mainly northern hemisphere constellation I think but I would always imagine there may be a few strays.

Not sure what to make of this myself, the ideal time is for North America and the suggested peak is in daylight for me but there does seem to be a level of uncertainty so I would think it's worth having a look in case the timings are out.

What I want to find is an alert of some kind which can text me or something if it starts kicking off and I'm in the land of nod already.

[algwat]

If ya can't see'em , try space weather radio.
Lots of pings occurring now

some long ones, like http://t.co/1V22hrlzjk.

regards, Alan Watson.

[Blue Skies]

Nope. I'd be staying in bed and getting my beauty sleep. Considering the *very* far north declination of the radiant I highly doubt you'll see anything.

Best suggestion I've seen is to watch is on Slooh: http://www.iflscience.com/space/p209-li ... ive-stream (http://www.iflscience.com/space/p209-linear-meteor-shower-peak-live-stream) with the bonus being you can do it during waking hours.

I have been recommending this article (http://earthsky.org/space/comet-209p-linear-meteor-shower-storm-may-2014) for good background reading.