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gaa_ian
06-07-2008, 08:15 AM
Having been out observing quite a bit over the past 2 weeks, including an Astrocamp where a few of us slept out on our swags.
This was particularly evident last Saturday night the 28th of June
I have noticed a preponderance of Meteors from the region of Sagittarius ?
They had a common radiant over the course of the evening at a rate of perhaps 5 or 6 /hr

Does anyone have a possible meteor stream that this may be associated with ?

Karls48
06-07-2008, 11:34 AM
Hi Ian, 28/06 was completely clouded over here in Sydney. Most of meteors lately I’m capturing are coming from Anti-Helion area. Included image plots captured meteors from 30/06 to 06/07. Camera orientation is azimuth 338 deg, elevation 48.5 deg. with FOW 43.5 deg.

gaa_ian
06-07-2008, 12:43 PM
Hi Karl
That is a very interesting plot you have there !
Is that all from Video ?
I have just learnt a thing or 2 about sporadic meteor radiants too
http://www.spaceweather.com/meteoroutlook/sporadics.html

Thanks for the insight into this aspect of meteor activity.

Karls48
06-07-2008, 03:33 PM
Yes it is from GStar video recordings at 12.5 FPS. Have look on http://sonotaco.com/e_index.html (http://sonotaco.com/e_index.html) , you may find one of his programs usefull.