Next event: “Comet Linear possible meteor shower” – 24 May 2014, 05:30 UT

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Next 23/24 May comet 209P/Linear, discovered in Feb. 2004, may possibly put an amazing show in the sky, with an exceptional meteor shower.

Calculations by Esko Lyytinen, Peter Jenniskens, Mikhail Maslov and J´er´emie Vaubaillon indicated there was such a chance, as ~ 100 years old dust trails from this comet are coming very close to us on those days. The meteors would radiate from a region of the sly where the pale constellation of Camalopardalis, so these meteors are also called by many Camelopardalids.

Predictions suggest that the moment of the show could be 07:00 UT of 24 May, while the best places to try to look at this possible shower are Southern Canada and US.

At Virtual Telescope we were asked to try to make possible to all the globe to look at this, so we scheduled a live coverage, thanks to several observers in the right part of the world. So we scheduled the live coverage for 24 May, starting at 05:30 UT.

For this international events, we teamed up with several observers in USA and Canada: they will provide wide field images for live sharing via our webtv. So far, this is the team working on this program:

• astrophotographer: Joaquin Fabrega Polleri (Asociacion Panameña de Aficionados a la Astronomia, Panama);
• astrophotographer: Gary Varney (South Florida Amateur Astronomers Association, Florida);
• astrophotographer: Fernando Rodriguez (South Florida Amateur Astronomers Association, Florida);
• astrophotographer: Ron Delvaux (Delvaux Observatory, Arizona);
• astrophotographer: John W. Johnson (Omaha Astronomical Society, Nebraska)
• astrophotographer:  Malcolm Park (Toronto, Canada)
• astrophotographer:  Bill Longo (Toronto, Canada)

If you want be part of the team providing images for this live feed, please let us know.

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