Radiant Positions at 9pm Local Summer Time Radiant Positions at 1am Local Summer Time Radiant Positions at 5am Local Summer Time During this period the moon reaches its last quarter phase on Saturday April 30th. On that...
Read MoreThe CMOR radar map today (28 April) already marks a distinct activity from the Eta Aquariids radiant. This shower of swift meteors (66 km/s) is associated with the famous comet 1P/Halley (also parent of the October Orionids) and...
Read MoreNikita Kulanov reports about a fireball over Russia, brighter than the Full Moon captured by the URSA network in Finland as well as from Russia and Sweden. A little before dusk, the sky lit up and lightened the landscape in blue...
Read MoreDuring this period the moon wanes from its full phase to nearly one-half illuminated. This is the worst time of the month to try and view meteor activity as the bright moonlight will obscure all but the brightest meteors.
Read MoreThe first 4 Lyrid orbits of 2016 were collected in the night of 17-18 April 2016 when in total 84 orbits were collected by the Benelux CAMS network. The nights of 19-20 and 20-21 April produced much better Lyrid rates. For 19-20...
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