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Old 15-12-2007, 12:01 PM
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What a night !
I was out with a few other keen club members observing Geminids from our dark sky site 10km from town.
Between 10pm and 2am we saw 100's of Geminids
Our more northerly declination will have contributed to the number of meteors spotted.
We noticed that many of them started a long way from the radiant, only bursting to life behind us, as we looked 20 to 30 Deg above and beside the radiant.
This is the first time I have seen this shower as the Wet Season is usually beginning by this time of year, this time we got lucky
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