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Camelopardalid?? Or something else.
Hello,
I am out at a fairly dark sky site at the moment 1 hour North of Adelaide.
I just saw a large meteor cut across the sky at 8.28pm. A rough guess of size is 10 full moon diameters. It seemed to come from the zenith then it shot Northwards. It lasted only a second. Could this have been one of the camelopardalids?
I know the camelopardalids are probably not visible in Australia and have checked Stellarium which shows that the constellation does not rise at all this far south. But I just wonder...
When the lyrids were active in April I saw one extremely large one - also which did not come from the direction of its radiant. This happened about 2.30 am and likewise flashed by in only a second.
Be nice to know if anyone else saw this meteor tonight.
Cheers,
Claire.
Last edited by ClaireBaire; 23-05-2014 at 09:19 PM.
Reason: paragraphs are important ;-)
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