Eta Aquarids ..

[ZeroID (Brent)]

Just shows that you should NEVER give up !!
Was walking down the drive to get the morning paper at 6:00am. Still dark, neck cranked round to watch the sky and caught two excellent Aquarids one after the other in the high NE Sky.
Satisfied now, till next year of course.

[mswhin63 (Malcolm)]

Managed some meteor captures, but DSLR are so hard to get.

5 of them on 05-05-11, 3 on 06. So many more visually.

http://www.waelect.com.au/mswhin63/M...1/index.html#1

[David_W (Dave)]

I had some luck with the shower too. Saturday at 4am the sky was with high altitude mist and only the brightest stars were visible, the sky being a dull shade of yellow. Went back to bed after 10 mins of looking, no meteors.

Sunday morning at 4am was totally clear and very dark, the Milky Way very impressive. I watched for 45 minutes and saw 30 meteors, all but one being eta aquarids, all were fast moving and some were bright and left trains behind them that lasted for a few seconds.

Very impressive, will take a look next year too I might even try for some photos next time, don't yet have the gear to attempt that.

Thanks for the thread, without it I probably wouldn't have remembered that the shower was on.