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