eta-Aquariids 2011

The eta-Aquariids are expected to peak on the evening of 2011 May 6 (ZHR ~60). The radiant of this shower in Aquarius rises rather late in the night. Northern obserevrs should use the last morning hour, mid-southern hemisphere observers have a longer observing window. Visual observations can be reported through the Report Form and are highly appreciated. The observations are automatically included in an automated ZHR graph. Note that meteor numbers far from the maximum may be very low and lead to highly uncertain ZHRs.