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G'day all
This is my first post here, I hope I am not hyjacking ur thread astro78.
Just a few weeks ago, I commented to a friend that I had not seen any meteors since last jan-feb. Then just a few nights later on the 19/10/07 as I was leaving a friends house @ ~3am I saw a bright white meteor/spacejunk fly accross the sky from straight above, heading east. Even driving I was well impressed, leaving a nice trail all the way accross the sky beyond the horizon (over 90Deg of travel). When I got home I also looked up and saw another nice, but much shorter meteor from same area of sky. Trails seemed to persist longer than most.
So, onto the internet and I see that orionids are about to hot up. So I head back out and watch Orion for another hour or so and I see a beuty from just right of orion. Approx 30deg of sky trail- green white, I watch for ~ an hour or two every non cloudy night after the moon had set. I counted 15 in 1 hour on 22nd OCT from orion. Have seen many real nice taurids normally atleast one or two good bright ones a night upto 20deg of sky per trail.
Spotted Holmes on last friday night 2nd Nov. It has been getting easier to see each night. Just visable above horizon with naked eye, but easily visable with binocs. Last night saw nice slow and long meteor from perseus, traveling parallel to east along horizon. Only two minor taurids, one north one south in over an hour from 2-3 am last night.
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