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Eta Aquarid meteor shower
Hi all. Anyone go out during the week to see the eta aquarid meteor shower which peaked on the morning of the 6th? This shower is attributed to debris from Comet Halley and is one of the better displays in the southern sky. It is generally pretty weak, though there was the possibility of a stronger show this year.
I got up at 4:15am on Wednesday to find cloudy skies over Melbourne, but in the hope of seeing a good display I drove for over an hour north (near Seymour) to clearing skies and set up the camera. BTW Melbourne roads are fantastically free of traffic at 4:30am...and I caught most of the lights! Being recently retrenched I also didn't have work to go to afterwards!
I was lucky enough to capture an eta aquarid meteor in my tripod mounted 450D, 10-22mm lens at 10mm, f/3.5, 50secs, ISO1600. You'll see it upper left streaking away S out of Grus (identity was confirmed by backtracking its trajectory N passing through the eta aquarid radiant). Some nice Milky Way fields too. Enjoy! Russ.
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