The Eta Aquarids are a light shower, producing about 10 meteors per hour at their peak, so a camera covering a portion of the sky may be lucky to catch one or two per hour. The shower's peak will be tonight May 06 01h15m GMT/Universal Time, (Sunday, May 5, 2013 at 6:15:00 PM PDT here in the U.S.).
Here in California the radiant point for this shower rises around 2:40 am, to the east, in the constellation Aquarius. The crescent moon will follow and wash out the sky a bit at 4 am, the sky starts lightening with astronomical twilight at 4:12 am, then sunrise comes 5:53 am.
With only an hour and change of dark sky viewing after the radiant point rises, I probably won't go out of my way to pursue this one.
This photo is from the Perseid meteor shower in 2009. I created a time-lapse video from my Perseid shots that year: http://youtu.be/vroLnrBhbmk
2009 Perseid Meteor over Sierra Nevada
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Beauty!
Superbe
nice
Good
Very nice
+Jeff Sullivan thank you for the information. I think meteor showers are colorful.
So much light pollution in the DC-metro, I miss you stars!
Thanks everyone, I don't think we'll get enough of a break in the clouds tonight here tonight or tomorrow night, but hopefully I'll get a decent sunset or two as a consolation prize.
Soooooooo neat.
I do like the nights
Lovely photo