I've been very fortunate, most nights I've observed I've had one to two meteors fly thru my eyepiece per session. I always chuckle to myself that's my reward for my night for all the hard work (I don't have an Argo Narvis- It's hard work, lol) They're very fast, about the time it takes (for example I would say) to slowly blink your eye and it's gone (and that's thru a 65deg wide field eyepiece). Oh hail the person that could actually "observe" one.
The joys & rewards of constellation learning is that if you stand outside long enough and look at the whole sky, chances are that you will often see at least one in an hourly session, as I do.
A night I won't forget in a hurry is the recent total lunar eclipse we had- there it was the moon in a glorious orange ball eclipsed, and I caught two Geminid meteors (at different times) travelling next to it. *sigh*
Satellites as said before, travel slower thru the eyepiece and I often track them, they're easy.
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Originally Posted by naskies
Some meteors I've seen have been spectacular - a huge bright streak over about 150 degrees of the sky in about a second. The brightest one I've ever seen lit up Salt Lake City, Utah as if it were daytime... check out this security camera video of it. I've also seen a couple light up parts of the Brisbane sky as if it were lightning  |
WOW!
That was really something!
While I was there I came across the news footage of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gcWe...eature=related
hehe, I've finally got myself one of those space rocks that came in the form of an xmas pressie- one very happy astro chick this xmas I was.
No, it didn't land in my yard.
Sheez for all the time I spend out there seeing so many you think one at least would land here.. even got the magnet out one day thru all the slush and goo thru the downpipe to no avail.
Okay, so I made hubby do it - symantics
Haven't given up yet tho.
