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Old 26-10-2006, 02:12 AM
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Very Professional effort Bert - love the animation too janoskiss, thankyou
a few southern Taurids there too possibly.
Would love to see the previous nights show in its entirety, like this is one day, there was some beauties there. wouldnt mind a stacked version either, I know you wouldnt get them all on there.
I am assuming with the brightest star in fov being Sirius at -1.47, that most of these meteors are equal to or brighter than +2/+3 in mag? - bloomin Awesome! thats a very high population of bright meteors - I did read some amazing ZHR rates, and high percentage of mag +2 or brighter in counts, from countries that don't get the radiant as high as us, wish i had made an effort to go out - but this is the first significant unpredicted/un-anticipated shower outburst for a very long time!
Some experienced observers who have observed the orionids for twenty years, say this is the best orionids they have evr seen, not too mention the fact it went for 3 or 4 days!!!
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