I knew you tried to catch the odd meteor shower Ian
yes I know there pretty damn good the old Persieds from N.H reports - some nice displays some years, was a nice one in the late 90's from memory? I hear that even from Brisbane they can be pretty good too.
Its my understanding that astronomical societies sometimes have organised meteor section's who do co-ordinated field trips sometimes - I know Vic has for sure anyway?
There's lots of ways I guess, as long as you follow their usually very strict format's and procedures to the letter, and of course the IMO is the big daddy of it all, but their not interested in reports to my knowledge.
But personally I would just post it on
meteorobs, you would have to join first. When I used to post my ob's of Northern Hemisphere favouring showers like the Leonid's, Gem's for instance, I found a few N.H. collators got upset about their nice pure stats being polluted with (what they considered) my corrupt and tainted data - I am too far south to be reliable source of data, as the radiant is to low here. So I didnt bother posting anymore of them. But there are lots of people on there that would still love to see them just the same of course, and you never know who is reading them.
The nice
NAMN people will publish them on their site for sure.
But they are definitely interested in far southern shower reports from us - unfortunately there are the less spectacular shows, sadly the northern majors are still easily the best, even at this latitude.
But maybe automated triangulated low light sensitive camera arrays will maybe wipe out scientific value visual work, maybe eventually? And then it would strictly be for fun - dunno? End of another era possibly? gone with visual comet discoverer's?
I find its when there are calls for observations that they most want them, you'll find maybe one researcher or group of researchers is interested in a particular shower at a particular window, - in the background you have all sorts of interested parties,( including the squillion dollar aerospace industry who of course take a strong interest in precisely predictable large swarms of projectiles that may damage their babies, and can take evasive action ect..)
For instance, I was contacted once by a well known researcher about taking part in observing the Alpha Centaurids one year, unfortunately I could only do it from a friends reasonable outer suburban backyard that night, but he was so desperate for help from southerners, he still wanted me to do it anyway. I was just looking out for a possible outburst of bright ones from memory? but the peak happened for South America, also from memory. cant find my notes from this time?
HTH?