This is just to let you know that another meteor shower is coming up, actually taking place as I type this, though the peak is in a few days – it is also to squeeze one more pic out of April. The Eta Aquariids is expected to peak on the night of May 5th and 6th, so feel free to make the attempt anytime in the next week or so, since the moon is cooperating this time at least.
The pic above is to indicate that I did try for the past shower, the Lyrids, and got bupkiss – I saw one slow, unimpressive meteor, but captured nothing in images save for a small streak that I later found in consecutive frames, indicating that it was a slow and dim satellite, though I didn’t bother to try and determine which. Visible in the photo are Ursa Major (The Big Dipper) at top, Denebola (the tail of the lion in constellation Leo) under the chimney, and Arcturus peeking through the trees at left. Plenty of dim stars in there that I would never have seen by eye, but no meteors. As showers go, just about everything that I’ve witnessed has been remarkably dry, so I’m pretty stinky by now, meteor-wise anyway. One of these days, however…