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What did I see??
Day:Friday the 4th, Time: 11.00 pm.
As the heat abated tonight in Melbourne, I took my grab and go SW120 f/5 outside for a view. The sky was clear and you could feel just a very light breeze on your skin. What a glorious night it is tonight as I aim my scope at my favorite open star cluster, the Pleiades. I had a Hyperion 17mm 68 afov eyepiece on, which would have given a X35 mag and a 1.92 degree fov and the Pleiades is still too wide to fit into the fov.
I was observing for about 10 minutes when I notice a dim star like object moving across the Pleiades field in an easterly direction at an elevation of about 10 degrees.I followed it for a full 2 minutes and it took about 11 secs to cover the fov of my scope,each time, as I repeatedly shift my scope to keep up with it. I have seen shooting stars all too often and they are usually very fast.
This one was too slow, as you can track it for a full two minutes and it is invisible to the naked eye. Whatever it is, it had you guessing??
Had any one seen a shooting star, a meteorite, that you can track for a full 2 minutes duration?
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