Meteor 12th October 2006

[olympusmons]

Hi,
Finished doing some maintenance to the observatory roof tonight:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sg.waters/page54.html just been greasing up the roof rails etc.

Then i finished working on the scope itself as it had a wild slew (not anymore though!)
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sg.waters/page28.html

Then i decided to make use of the clear sky before the Moon came up too high.

I decided to do some visual observing. Glad i did. I just saw the brightest meteor i have ever seen. It was much larger than a star in size and was a ball shape. Very bright at the centre with a tail trailing behind.
I observed it at 10:35pm GMT on 12th October 2006 it came from the square of Pegasus and moved downwards towards Ursa Major and i lost sight of it as it disappeared behind the roof tops. It was still moving strong though. The event lasted for around 3 seconds, seemed like longer though. This is the slowest meteor i have ever seen.

Got to go, more observing to do!

Regards
Stewart

[Dennis]

Hi Stewart,

Nice report – you obviously scored the correct answer to Q16 in the IISis2 competition:

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/index.php?id=73,327,0,0,1,0

Meteor: The light phenomena which results when a meteoroid enters the Earth's atmosphere and vaporizes; a shooting star.

Cheers

Dennis

PS – Went to your website and the Construction photos would not display. A “right click” resulted in a copyright message.

[olympusmons]

Hi Dennis,
Thank you for informing me. I will check the web pages out.

Which web browser do you use? Is it IE?

Regards
Stewart

[Dennis]

Hi Stewart

IE6 SP2. The 2nd http link displayed the images okay, but not the first http link.

Cheers

[bird]

Hi Stewart. Thought you might like to know that I'm also having some trouble with the layout on your website for your page28. The images are displaying over the top of the text :-(

I'm using Mozilla 1.7.13 on Linux

regards, Bird

[olympusmons]

Hi,
Thank you Dennis and Bird. I totally redesign the website because of too many problems before.

I thought the new website was virtually bug free but obviously not.

I will work on it tonight and iron out some of the problems.
Regards
Stewart