Saturn and Meteor

[Gordon]

Hello all

I had a first-off experience tonight in nearly 50 years of observing. While viewing Saturn at about 125X power a meteor flew through the field of view and right across Saturn itself. I nearly fell off my observing chair!!!:eyepop:

I've seen them many times while observing deep sky objects but never while observing a planet and certainly not one that crossed in front of a planet!

It just goes to show that there are always new experiences to be had when we keep our eyes glued to the sky.

[ballaratdragons]

Hi Gordon,

The Meteor did that on purpose. Your very own Fireworks display.

Congratulations!

[ving]

ken, you are such a clown! :lol2:

congrats on that. must have been a great sight! :)

[Gordon]

Hello Ken and Ving

Well it was certainly something I'll never forget. I suspect it might have been faint as a naked eye meteor and quite high but through the telescope it was indeed astounding!

[ballaratdragons]

Gee thanks Ving

[ballaratdragons]

I once had a satellite move through my FOV. I thought it was a Meteor as it shot across the view, but didn't take into consideration the magnification. It was revealed as a satellite when I had a naked eye look.

[beren]

Hi Gordon , good experiance , i dont remember ever having a meteor/sat pass while viewing planets to but plenty of DSO.

One the other night ....sat split the 7 sisters

[ballaratdragons]

Mine wasn't while viewing a planet Beren, I was looking at black sky and non-descipt stars at the time.

Gordons would have been excellent. Imagine catching that with a camera by fluke!

[Gordon]

Hello Beren

Terrific picture - Is that a photo or a video camera picture?

It seemed very bright in the eyepiece that's for sure. We'll I've just packed up my telescope even though the sky has now fully cleared itself of cloud. It certainly didn't look so promising a little while ago. Off to bed for me.
Goodnight all

[Gordon]

Oh..Hello Ken

I just saw your response before I hit the hay. Yes indeed that was my thought also especially since I have just started out at this webcam thing. I wasn't trying to do any imaging tonight as I have had so many problems with the computer I use freezing up. Most certainly such a lucky picture would have made its way to S&T or AS&T had I obtained it. Now I feel depressed but the memory wil always be there.

Good night friends

[ballaratdragons]

Don't be depressed. At least you SAW it! Well done.

Night Gordon.

[iceman]

I've been looking through the eyepiece at Orion (M42) and have seen many satellites pass through the FOV, and one meteor too!

A plane went directly across Saturn the other day when I was watching, wish I was imaging it at the time.

[Robby]

Here are a couple of fluke shots I have had in the past couple of years.
Plane crossing the moon, & satellite crossing Cent.A Galaxy.
They certianly are cool when you see them at the EP.

[[1ponders]]

Nice Cent A. shot Robby. 300D?

[Striker]

Nice Gordon......would have been great to see.......I just hope I dont have to wait 50 years before I see something spectactular.....otherwise I would nealy be as old as some off you gents......just stirring....lol

[iceman]

I saw Centaurus A last night through Rod's scope! Was nice.

[ballaratdragons]

I still haven't seen anything yet in my 12". Rain predicted tonight too AGAIN!

I have my search list ready to go, starting with M1.

[Gordon]

Hello Striker

In my late night tired haste I must have pressed the 5 key instead of the 4 with the intention of 40 years not 50. If it were so I would probably only cart the telescope down from the house once a month rather than once a week or fortnight!
The beauty of observational astronomy is that we all get a chance of witnessing something specatuclar no matter how long we've been involved. The more we look, the greater the possibilities.

Ken, it looks like the possibility of rain here in Sydney also.

[Robby]

Hey Paul,
Yep 300D. That was just one of the Raw frames. See the final processed image at
http://www.star-mate.com/DSO/CentA_pro1.jpg
which is the result of 10x3min images stacked.
Cheers

[[1ponders]]

Impressive Robby. Question. The bloating of the larger stars: overexposure or slightly soft focus?