Observation of April alpha Capricornids (IAU#752 AAC)

A short duration outburst of 15 meteors was observed over 2 hours 34 minutes on 2014 April 7 from 16h59m to 19h33m UT by SonotaCo Network in Japan. Radiants of the 15 meteors were in the range of RA = 304.5° ± 3.3°, Dec = -12.7° ± 1.1°, with v_g = 69.1 ± 0.9 km/s at / = 16.65° ± 0.6°. The orbit parameters of the brightest shower meteor with the least amount of observation uncertainty was RA = 303.80° ± 0.04°, Dec = -12.80° ± 0.03°, v_g = 69.4 ± 0.2 km/s, 1/a = 0.004 ± 0.017 1/AU, q = 0.80 ± 0.01 AU, e = 0.9968 ± 0.014, ω = 126.5° ± 0.5°, Ω = 17.63°, i = 167.3° ± 0.1°. There are no known nearby shower radiants so the IAU MDC assigned the name of this new shower as the April alpha Capricornids (IAU#752 AAC).