Daily Image
13-06-2014
Dutch Camelopardalids
| Submitter: | Felix Bettonvil |
| Description: | It has been predicted that, during the night of May 23/24 2014, a new meteor shower should appear. It would originate from the comet 209P/LINEAR, which was discovered in 2004. The new shower, named Camelopardalids, could, according to recent models, generate moderate activity of up to a few hundred meteors per hour. The latter did unfortunately not happen: not more than 10-15 meteors per hour were detected by observers in the favourably located US. For the Netherlands, maximum activity occurred during daytime, but the early morning of May 24 was clear enough to monitor any Camelopardalid activity. This resulted in this picture of one of the only three Dutch Camelopardalids detected. The picture was taken from Utrecht by Felix Bettonvil, with one of the CAMS network video camera's, and confirmed well before maximum that the stream exists. Every clear night, thirty sensitive CAMS cameras monitor the sky above the BeNeLux for meteor activity, resulting in 500+ orbits each month. The captured dust particle of 209P/LINEAR is visible as a trail in the upper left corner of the image, in the constellation of Cepheus. The inset shows the worldwide hourly counts, as derived from visual observers, peaking at 15/hour at maximum. |
| Copyright: | Felix Bettonvil |
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