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Originally Posted by meteorObserva
To my best guess using google earth/sky I rekon they were coming from near Piscis Austrinus or there abouts. Thats where they started burning ~~~
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The times ive been out to really dark skies, specially certain times of the year, i am amazed how many meteors you can see, meteors that would look anemic in the city look like impressive fireballs out there! lol coz the sporadic rate goes up and down over a year too, peaks and troughs with them also. but you feel like theres unknown showers going on sometimes out in the sticks, i have had that feeling more than a few times over the years when out somewhere remote in perfect conditions.
i just wish to add to the bugs splatering on front windscreen analogy, on top of that, you have the sweeping action of the earth at that time of the day, so not only are we moving forward in space around sun at a phenomenal rate of course, but the earths rotation speed also comes into play here in the dark morning sky quadrant as it turns into them adding more speed to the two cars in a head-on crash, the fireworks of impact is amplified effect. just to add to confusion
with radio, its kinda harder here with sparse pop. lack of powerful radio stations at usable distances (1000 k away? cant remember now without looking it up,) to point aerial at all over the place, preferably east, to do the simpler method boom box home radio thing. you definitely need the youbeaut powerful dick smith type aerial they all use i think. i did it a bit of it on a few occasions, you certainly hear them (and i mean by that, suddenly you hear a reflected signal from very distant radio station, so a portion of the song is heard for instance, which can be quite comedic if it works out humorously, and duration and intensity can tell you about size/brightness - ie a big slow fireball will play loud and strong for a while) but out of clear dark sky eyeballing, and radio obs, i know which one i would chose
altho i think clear weather is still important to radio obs too? thunderstorms and anything that messes withe ionisphere would change things?
just google it Meteorobserva?