Category: Observations

By Michel Vandeputte Intro The year 2018 will enter the books as a peculiar weather year. High pressure areas reigned very long over northern Europe with great drought and real heat waves as a result. The corner in the southeast...

Introduction Modelers expected some low but detectable activity from the Draconids before 2018. However, the comet passed through perihelion a few weeks earlier and perhaps there was more to see than predicted. I had not asked...

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...

For 2018 I can look back on a very successful year. I could observe the following meteor showers: the Lyrids, eta Aquariids, Perseids, Draconids, Leonids and Geminids. There are only few years in which that was possible in the...