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Well, I went out last night a couple of minutes before due time and checked my bearings with a compass. Fortunately, the clouds had thinned in Melbourne a bit in the previous hour or so. I said to my daughter "I'm going to catch a flare, do you want to come, you've got two minutes". I stared into the approximate area and right on time (I guess it was, but I did not dare to take my eyes off the sky to check) a "star" about the brightness of Alpha Centauri came from nowhere. Over the next second or so it brightened steadily until it looked like a light from an aircraft, only infinitely smaller. After a few seconds it slowly moved and faded away. So that was my first -8. Then I heard the back door open, I turned and said "too late, you just missed it". I think there was something interesting on "Neighbours"...although isn't that an oxymoron? Or maybe there is no "oxy"?
I think there is a -6 in a few days, have to print out flares for next week.
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