{"id":354,"date":"2007-09-01T09:36:51","date_gmt":"2007-09-01T09:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2007\/09\/01\/alpha_aurigid_m\/"},"modified":"2007-09-01T09:36:51","modified_gmt":"2007-09-01T09:36:51","slug":"alpha_aurigid_m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2007\/09\/01\/alpha_aurigid_m\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpha Aurigid Meteor Shower"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the second time this week, I’ve managed to drag myself out of bed in the dark, sleepy hours of the morning. This time I was hoping to catch the Alpha Aurigid meteor shower. It turned out to be fairly decent, especially considering the gibbous moon riding high in the sky. I counted 17 meteors from 4:15 – 5:15 AM (11:15 – 12:15 UT). About half of those were around 1st to 2nd magnitude, with the rest being 3rd magnitude or fainter. One spectacular meteor flashed up to about -3 magnitude, lighting up some surrounding alto-cumulus clouds as it blew past Sirius. Amanda saw one through our bedroom window just before I headed outside, and she decided that had to be the best way to watch this or any other meteor shower.<\/p>\n

I shot 30 second exposures with my Canon Digital Rebel the whole time I was outside. Only one of the meteors I noticed was inside the frame of my camera, and it was too faint to pull out of the photo. I did find another exposure with a meteor I had not noticed visually. It was just east of Auriga and had a path intersecting the southeastern edge of the constellation. I’m pretty sure this was well outside the zone for the Alpha Aurigid radiant, making it a sporadic meteor. It was close though. And fairly colorful. The photo can be seen below.<\/p>\n

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