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Originally Posted by Bendy
Observed five meteors over the course of an hour in between clouds (unaided). Each was fast moving and short lived but a few were reasonably bright.
Interesting that you mentioned "eyepiece", I haven't done much meteor shower observing before and assumed it was purely an unaided eye thing. What sort of equipment can be used to aid meteor observations??
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hi Ben,
I haven't done much either! I was using a fairly low power eyepiece (42mm GSO Superview) which in my 8" dob was giving about 28x magnification - more magnification than I really wanted, but I didn't fancy trying to hold binoculars for an extended period of time. I had it tracking the (alleged) centre of the shower, but as I got basically zilch, I may revert back to unaided eye observing next time, which is probably the time-honoured way of doing it anyway. Or strain my neck looking through binoculars on a tripod.