[meteorObserva]

I am at the bottom of Australia and have in the last few weeks taken a more serious approach to observing meteors. After enjoying heaps last sumer nights while taking dog out for toilet, I noticed that I had not seen any for many months. Partly because of winter cloud, but now I find out through reading that it was just generally a slow time of the year. So to my delight I started seeing heaps over the last few weeks, with this number dramatically increased because I now know where to watch in the sky.

It has come to my attention however that the majority of the meteor showers that are commonly listed as visable from the southern hemispere. All seem to be in the Northern or Eastern sky, sumtimes directly above, but I havn't found one yet that requires me to look out South or West over the ocean. So it got me to thinking that maybe thats because most observations in hystory have been from Northern hemispere or quite high up in the southern and that maybe the very south has mearly been largely unobservable (except by those in Antartica maybe) until recent hystory, and even then it takes sum1 to actually recognize a meteor shower.

So I guess My question is, Is it worth looking out that way for new, undiscovered or unrecoreded meteor showers? I have been observing one shower with a ZHR of nearly 40, straight above my location for the last few nights, but can't seem to find a shower to correnspond. They are very faint and only short trails, but quite numerous. When I learn my constellations better I will let u know exacty where it is. I am only familiar with the north eastern sky ATM.