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Old 11-02-2005, 10:30 PM
Gordon
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Palm Beach NSW
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Saturn and Meteor

Hello all

I had a first-off experience tonight in nearly 50 years of observing. While viewing Saturn at about 125X power a meteor flew through the field of view and right across Saturn itself. I nearly fell off my observing chair!!!

I've seen them many times while observing deep sky objects but never while observing a planet and certainly not one that crossed in front of a planet!

It just goes to show that there are always new experiences to be had when we keep our eyes glued to the sky.
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