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Lyrids 2006, first analysis
The Lyrid meteor shower exhibited normal activity in 2006. The profile below is compatible with a peak time of solar longitude 32.32 degrees as it is listed in IMO's Shower Calendar. At present, the…
IMC 2006 in The Netherlands
This year's International Meteor Conference (IMC) will be held in Roden, a village in the North of the Netherlands. At the conference, which will take place from September 14 - 17, 2006, astronomers…
Quadrantids 2006, visual
Visual observations of the 2006 Quadrantids received by the IMO before January 8 were used to provide a rough estimate of the 2006 activity of the meteor shower. A total of 303 Quadrantids seen…
Draconids 2005, visual
An outburst of Draconid activity was observed from Asian and eastern European geographical longitudes on October 8, 2005. The activity was also observed by radar technique with highest rates at a…
International Meteor Conference 2005
Last weekend the International Meteor Organization held its annual International Meteor Conference (IMC) in Oostmalle, Belgium. Nearly 100 participants from all over the world joined us for this…
A new look for the IMO website
As you can see, the IMO website got a serious facelift. The old design was around since the launch of the site in 1996 and was screaming for some attention. It finally got this much-needed attention…
Perseids 2005, visual
The 2005 Perseids exhibited a normal to rather low maximum activity level. There is no clear peak time, but this can still be due to the limited amount of data. For the moment we have to assume that…
Meteor Shower Calendar 2006 available
In the Meteor Shower Calendar 2006 , Alastair McBeath looks ahead at what the coming year has to offer for the meteor world. For your convenience the calendar is also available as PDF (282 KB)…
Geminids 2004, first results
A great amount of data has been reported by visual observers already one day after the maximum night. The below activity profile is based on 5511 Geminids seen by 46 observers. The peak time of the…
Geminids 2004 Observing Hints
First-time observers are encouraged to read the general visual observing pages first. World-wide meteor observations are collected in the Visual Meteor Database (VMDB). The global set of data is the…
Leonids 2004, 3rd Circular
A total of 327 visual observing periods have been collected for the 2004 Leonid meteor shower. A grand total of 1249 shower meteors was reported. Dust trail computations gave predictions for Nov 8…
Leonids 2004, update
A total of 179 visual observing periods have been collected for the 2004 Leonid meteor shower. An updated activity pro- file is given below. The data indicate a broad background component with ZHRs…
Leonids 2004, first results
The 2004 Leonids were not expected to show strong activity. Yet predictions have been given by various authors for encounters chiefly with the 8-revolution dust trail of parent comet…
Predictions for the 2004 Leonids
Although the big Leonid outbursts we saw over the last few years are over, this remains an interesting shower to observe. Using the same methods that successfully predicted these outbursts…
The 2004 Perseids, 4th analysis
A total of 16536 Perseids is now comprised by 1567 individual observing periods as used for the analysis given below. A short-lived peak of activity was observed at 20h56m UT +-4 min on August 11…
The 2004 Perseids, 3rd analysis
The peak time of the 1-revolution dust trail predicted by Lyytinen can now be narrowed down to the period 20:55 UT to 21:05 UT. Since many observers reported no details below 15-minute periods, it…
The 2004 Perseids, 2nd analysis
As an update of the first preliminary analysis of the 2004 Perseids based on visual observations, this is a refined graph with almost 500 observing periods. The peak time of the 1-revolution dust…
First Glance at the 2004 Perseids
Accoding to the below, very first analysis of the 2004 Perseids, the additional activity peak near 21h UT on August 11, 2004, was confirmed by visual observations sent to the IMO. Particle…