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Old 06-05-2013, 01:35 PM
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Crickey Liz, what a corker of a night you had!
Especially seeing this is your first viewing of the Eta Aquarids!

And Shelley, WOW!

I managed to spot three flying through my eyepiece while observing under the tail of Scorpius on the morning of the 5th between 1.00-1.30am. And then I couldn't keep my eyes open past 2.30 so went to bed. Will be trying again tonight, this time staying up later for the 2hrs before dawn. Don't like my chances, quite a bit of cloud around at the moment.

UPDATE !!!

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According to Ian Musgrave (Astroblog), he said, "according to the IMO the peak is at 11 am today [Monday 6th], and recent dust trail analysis suggests that there will be several dust trails crossing our path up to 23:45 UT ( 6 May) so early morning 7th and 8th will be best (and the Moon will be further away)."
Liz, are you gettng back out there?
You know you want to....
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