The eta Aquarid Meteor Shower Saturday 6th May

From Space Weather News for May 2, 2006 http://spaceweather.com

METEOR SHOWER:
Earth is about to pass through a stream of dust from Halley's
Comet, and this will produce the annual eta Aquarid meteor shower.
The shower peaks on Saturday, May 6th, with 10 meteors per hour in the northern hemisphere and as many as 60 meteors per hour in the southern hemisphere. The best time to look is during the hours immediately before sunrise on Saturday morning.

The eta Aquarid Meteor Shower, which takes place this weekend, provides an ideal opportunity to listen out for meteor scatter signals in the 50, 70 and 144 MHz Amateur bands. The ionized trails produced as the meteors enter Earths atmosphere can enable contacts of up to 2000 km to take place in these bands.

Useful Amateur Radio Meteor Scatter websites
W8WN Meteor Scatter: http://www.qsl.net/w8wn/hscw/hscw.html
WSJT Meteor scatter software: http://pulsar.princeton.edu/~joe/K1JT/
DK3XT: http://www.qsl.net/dk3xt/

73 Trevor M5AKA

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