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Quadrantids
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On January. 04, 2006, sky watchers somewhere will see a dazzling display of Quadrantid meteors.
In 2006 the Moon will be a Waxing Crescent so there will be no interference. The best place and time to watch is after 3:00 am local time on Wednesday, January 4th in Asian.
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Arietid meteor shower
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The Arietid meteor shower streams from a point only 30 degrees from the sun, peaks on the 8th June. The best time to look is just before dawn. This is the strongest daylight meteor shower of the year. The duration extends from May 22 to July 2. The hourly rate is 54 at maximum. This meteor shower was discov...
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Chi Capricornids
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The Chi Capricornids are a daylight meteor shower. The shower has a broad active range between January 29 and February 28 with a peak during the day time hours around the 13th February. The chi Capricornid radiant is located 17°SW of the Sun in southern Capricornus, (Peak radiant is at =314.3°, =-23....
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Pi Virginids
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The Pi Virginids meteor shower occur between February 13 and April 8, peaking between March 3 and March 9, with two to five meteors per hour. The shower was first observed in 1908 and identified in 1948. Read more
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Gamma Normids
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Gamma Normids meteor shower Shower Activity Maximum Radiant Velocity ZHR Period Date R.A. Dec. Gamma Normids 11 - 22 Mar 11 16.7 -44.0° 58.9 5.5
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Eta-Lyrids meteor shower
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Eta-Lyrids meteor shower on the 10th May, 2010. (1:00 UT) ZHR=3.0 Velocity=46.6km/s (rather rapid) Radiant: RA=19.4h/292° Dec=39.7° (J2000) (in constellation Cygnus)
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Omega-Cetids meteor shower
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Daytime Omega-Cetids meteor shower in constellation Cetus, on the 7th May, 2010. ZHR: 8.0 Velocity: 38.1km/s Radiant (J2000): RA=1.3h/19° Dec=-7.0°
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June Lyrids meteor shower
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June Lyrids meteor shower (in constellation Lyra) Best seen from 0.2h - 2.1h ZHR=2.4 Local hour rate=1 Velocity=20.3km/s (very slow) Radiant: RA=18.8h/281° Dec=44.7° (J2000)
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Tau-Aquariids meteor shower
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Tau-Aquariids meteor shower in constellation Aquarius. The meteor shower is active from the 27th June to 6th July. ZHR=7.1 Velocity=66.2km/s Radiant: RA=22.9h/343° Dec=-11.8°
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North Delta-Aquariids meteor shower
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North Delta-Aquariids meteor shower in the constellation Pisces, 17:00 UT, 26th July, 2010. ZHR=3.5 Velocity=42.0km/s (rather rapid) Radiant: RA=23.0h/345° Dec=0.4° (J2000)
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S. Delta Aquarid meteor shower
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Starting from today the Southern Delta Aquarid meteor shower will appear, lasting until August 19; and peaking around July 28.
The meteors will radiate from a point in the constellation of Aquarius.
Expect to see 11 meteors an hour, though sometimes it can be as high as 50/hour.
The...
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Southern Iota Aquarids Meteor Shower
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The Southern Iota Aquarids meteor shower peaks on August 5 with a ZHR of two. With these low rates one would be lucky to see one shower member per hour. The radiant is currently located in south-western Aquarius, five degrees west of the third magnitude star Delta Aquarii. At 34 km/sec the meteors have...
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Eta-Eridanids meteor shower
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Eta-Eridanids meteor shower in the constellation Eridani, 10th August, 2010. ZHR=6.0 Velocity=65.0km/s (rapid) Radiant: RA=3.0h/45° Dec=-12.9° (J2000)
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Alpha-Monocerotids
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People in many areas of Taiwan will have the opportunity of witnessing two waves of rare and spectacular meteor showers are set to appear next week. Astronomers at the Taipei Astronomical Museum said people will be able to see the upcoming meteor showers with naked eyes under fair weather condition...
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Puppid-Velids
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Meteor shower with a radiant located in the constellations of Puppis and Vela five degrees northeast of Gamma Velorum. Peak date: 7th December Activity: Dec 1 - Dec 15 ZHR=10
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Geminid meteor shower
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The Geminid meteor shower officially begins on December 6th, but it doesn't peak until the morning of the 14th at 02:24 UT.
The best viewing time this year is on Tuesday morning, December 13; the last couple of hours before morning twilight, when the Moon will be near or below the horizon. The Gemini...
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Alpha Centaurid meteor shower
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Alpha Centaurid meteor shower. The Alpha Centaurid meteor shower is considered to be a "minor" meteor shower. The reason is, on average, only 3 to 5 meteors per hour are normally observed during this shower. This particular shower is also considered to be for more advanced meteor observ...
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gamma Ursae Minorids
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P. Jenniskens, SETI Institute; and Esko Lyytinen, Helsinki, Finland, report that six Finnish observers using wide-angle video cameras (limiting magnitude +1) observed a possible outburst of gamma Ursae Minorids, a newly discovered stream (cf. CBET 1938) that until now was only known from rada...
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Delta Leonids meteor shower
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Alpha-Virginids meteor shower
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The Alpha Virginids occur between March 10 and May 6, peaking between April 7 and April 18, with five to ten meteors per hour. They were first detected in 1895. Read more Shower Activity Period Maximum Radiant Velocity ZH...
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Gamma Virginids meteor shower
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ShowerActivityMaximumRadiant VelocityZHR PeriodDateR.A.Dec. Gamma VirginidsApril 5 to 21April 14/1512.05.7°22.24.6
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Zeta Cygnids meteor shower
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ShowerActivity PeriodMaximumRadiantVelocityZHR DateR.A.Dec.km/s Zeta CygnidsMar 27 to April 13Apr. 6295° 37442 The parent body is unknown.
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Theta Ophiuchids meteor shower
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This meteor shower extends from 21st May to the 16th June. With the broad maximum on the 10-15th June. The radiant point is near the borders of the constellations Ophtuchus, Sagittarius, and Scorpius. The Theta Ophiuchids are best after midnight and from southerly latitudes. This shower is also kn...
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South June Aquilids
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Maximum of the South June Aquilids meteor shower in the constellation Aquila on the 17th June, 2011. The shower is active from the 9th June to the 2nd July. ZHR=3.0 Velocity=38.6km/s Radiant: RA=19.5h/293° Dec=-4.9° During June 13-19, 1961, C. S. Nilsson (Adelaide, South Australia) detected...
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Ophiuchids meteor shower
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There is one well documented annual meteor shower which is associated with the constellation of Ophiuchus which peaks on or about June 20 of each year - the Ophiuchids. The radiant - or point of origin - for this meteor shower is near Sagittarius border. The fall rate varies from average 8 to 20 meteors...
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February Eta Draconids
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P. Jenniskens, SETI Institute, reports the detection of a meteor outburst from a previously unknown shower on 2011 February 4 during routine low-light-level video triangulations with NASA's Cameras for Allsky Meteor Surveillance (CAMS) project in California between 2h20m and 14h20m UT. Duri...
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Beta-Cassiopeids meteor shower
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Beta-Cassiopeids meteor maximum in the constellation Cassiopeia on the 30th July, 2011. The shower is active from 3rd July to 19th. August. ZHR=10.0 Velocity=51.6km/s Radiant: RA=23.7h/353° Dec=59.1°
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Alpha-Capricornids
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The Alpha Capricornids are active from a wide radiant located in western Aquarius, three degrees northeast of the fourth magnitude star Epsilon Aquarii. Current rates are about one per hour. They have a velocity of 23 km/sec.
Active: Jul 3 —August 15; Maximum: July 30 (λ = 127°); ZHR = 4;
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Northern Iota Aquarids meteor shower
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The Northern Iota Aquarids meteor shower peaks on the 25th August, 2011. Range: August 11- September 10 ZHR: 5-10 meteors per hour Speed: 31 km/s Radiant: RA=21:48, Dec= -06°
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September Perseids
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25 bright fireballs were recorded over the eastern United States. "Our SENTINEL all-sky camera picked up 25 bright meteors in a shower that began at 06:20 UT and lasted approximately 4 hours. Most appear to have a radiant near Perseus, leading us to hypothesise an outburst of the September Per...
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Sextantid Meteor Shower
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The Sextanids are active September 29 through October 9. Though, this one is more of a radio/radar shower as it occurs during the daytime with minimal activity. The radiate is in the constellation Sextans. The Sextanid meteor shower was first reported by Weiss (1960), who matched theoretical enve...
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Delta-Aurigids
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The Oct. Delta-Aurigids meteor maximum in the constellation Auriga is on the 4th October, 2011. The stream is active from 29. September to 18. October. ZHR=3.0 Velocity=65.8km/s Radiant: RA=5.6h/83° Dec=50.4°
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August iota cetids
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A new meteor shower
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209P-ids Meteor Shower
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The Earth is expected to encounter a great number of the comet 209P trails in 2014. The main source of activity should become 1898-1919 trails, however some meteors could be produced by the earlier trails of the comet, down to 1763 trail, which is the oldest computed trail, and even earlier. The compu...
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Pi Puppids
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The Pi Puppids are a meteor shower associated with the comet 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup. The meteor stream was viewable around April 23 but only in years around the parent comet's perihelion date, the last being in 2003. Read more
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Alpha Circinids
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Circinus is the radiant of an annual meteor shower, the Alpha Circinids (ACI). First observed in Queensland in 1977, the meteors have an average velocity of 27.1 km/s and are thought to be associated with a long-period comet. In 2011, Peter Jenniskens proposed that the debris trail of comet C/1969 T...
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Daytime Arietids
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Meteors 2013
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The peak of the Daytime Arietids meteor shower, in constellation Aries, is at 12:00 UT, 7th June, 2013. ZHR=54.0 Velocity=37.4km/s The stream is active from the 22nd May to the 2nd July. Though no one is sure where the Arietids dust comes from, some suspect it's debris from the sungrazing aster...
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