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Originally Posted by Outbackmanyep
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One more thing, i saw a few satellites, a HUGE (-4?) Iridium flare....
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I saw that too, caught it in my peripheral vision then nearly snapped my neck to view it directly. Was an awesome sight, much brighter than I've ever seen Venus.
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Originally Posted by fringe_dweller
yep, one strict general rule for 'proper' submitted obs....
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Thanks for that fringe_dweller.
The reason I was so surprised, with it being my first meteor shower, I mistakenly thought that they all started at the radiant or not far from it. At first I wasn't including those that were at a large distance from the radiant in my count, a few were marked as sporadics.(on the 4th)
As I started to realise that they were all kinda lining up, a few more were marked as 'possibles', then the more I saw started me thinking about things (like the full disk of Earths atmos. would be sweeping them up and the radiant being the point that the earth is travelling towards in this part of it's orbit, the radiant will shift slightly each day as we move through the orbit, etc etc), things started dropping into place and came up with the 90deg from radiant thing.
Come to think of it I probably should've done a bit of reading-up about showers before-hand!
The 'possibles' count(on the 4th) got merged with the Eta count when I was convinced I'd seen enough distant Eta's.
I also went out on the 6th(Tues) between 4:10 and 5:55am, saw 18 Eta's, two of which were very good, 22 sporadics incl. one very bright one and a very very bright Satellite(see Outbackmanyep's post).
Like others I saw a few pinpoint ones at the radiant.
Wanted to go out on Wed 7th too but was clouded out.
Most enjoyable, looking forward to the Perseids, Orionids and other showers
Was cloudy and kept raining off and on, can't complain about the rain though.
