Astroron and I
nearly saw this .... we were at his place for a night of observing and as midnight came we changed over to widefield visual observing with naked eyeballs and/or binoculars for a while.
Sadly we started to get well and truly fogged out at ground level and the sky hazed over around 1am or so, otherwise we would have carried on for some time.
This amazing event was sighted from the Darling Downs area (not
that far away) between 2 and 3am.
Bugger! Missed it by that much.
