Author: Pierre Martin

For the Quadrantids peak night on Friday morning January 4th, I was ready to write it off due to very poor weather.  I checked the clouds forecast at 1:30am (local time) just in case the situation might have improved, and it...

I went out on the morning of December 23 to look for Ursids.  A cold front had just swept through, moving clouds away but not without strong winds.  It was -10C, and the east-end looked favoured, so I chose Johnston road, a...

I went out this past Sunday morning to view the Leonids at the Fred Lossing Observatory (FLO) near Almonte to check out the 18” dob and then get comfortable in my winter sleeping bag for a predawn meteor watch.  It was cold...

I was able to observe one more time after the Draconids outburst, to see if anything was going on before the long drive back home.  I did not expect to see any but as always with meteors, we never know.  After a very relaxing...