[ATMoB-discuss] Orionids anyone?

[Mario E. Motta]

I missed nothing, Galaxies rule,... not microscopic pebbles falling into 
the atmosphere. I was lookong out 1 billion light years.
Mario

Bernie Volz (volz) wrote:

>I also saw one very bright meteor with a nice 'smoke' trail while Mario
>and I were observing in Center Harbor, NH at about 11 -- Mario was at
>the eyepiece sucking up photos from a very faint fuzzy (oh, I mean
>galaxy) so he missed it. There were many very faint meteors as well
>(seen through the eyepiece).
>
>- Bernie 
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>Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 8:32 PM
>To: Dave Snay; atmob-discuss at atmob.org
>Subject: Re: [ATMoB-discuss] Orionids anyone?
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>Dave,
>I can confirm your observations although I didn't see them, myself.
>Eileen Myers and John Briggs/Family were guests at Stellafane. After the
>STM meeting at 9PM, the winds died out and members saw quite a few
>Orionids. John's son said he saw one that was as bright as a bolide and
>another that was visible for 3/4 of the way across the sky. 
>I was inside the Porter Turret and, of course, saw none!
>I was learning to use the setting circles and heard several oh's and
>ah's. 
>The meteors clearly died out by 1 AM as did many observers. I stayed up
>until Orion and M42 cleared the trees to the east and hit the sack at
>1:30AM.
>We had seen M13, but could not find the Veil. M11, M15, M57, M56,
>M31,M32,and M110 followed in slow succession as we found a large amount
>of backlash in the drive. This consumed a lot of time that I had not
>experienced two years ago while photographing Mars.
>Paul      
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