[Gargoyle_Steve (Steve)]

I too am hanging out for a night of good dark skies but sadly I'm working graveyard shifts Friday, Saturday and Sunday! We've got one person away on a weeks holidays, and there is no one left at all for me to try and swap shifts with.

Randall you'll have to soak as up as many photons as you can for me ... as Jeanette said the Orionids peak the same night, should be great!

Speaking of meteorites - I was out in the front yard with a mate and his daughter Saturday evening having a poke around the skies, we saw a couple of quite slow moving and very golden coloured meteorites, appearing as early as 7:30 pm. They followed a very vertical "straight down" path, one falling due west, the other nearly due south - if you could backtrack and plot a radiant for such wide spread objects it would have been somewhere east of Grus or so I guess. Very nice to look at, the golden colour quite beautiful!

Anyway apologies for this month .... am trying to arrange a mid week visit to Ron's instead. The good news is that by next month I should be in possession of a newly aquired (2nd hand) Baader Hyperion ep in 13 mm size, to complete the gap between my existing Hyperion/Stratus 17mm and 8mm ep's. Happy Days!!!!

(perhaps I should change that to " Happy Nights " )