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[Chris Schur <comets133@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jeremy, nice color on the meteor!

Chris
--- Jeremy Perez <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The Perseids put on a better show, but this was
> still nice. I counted  
> 17 meteors from 4:15 - 5:15 AM (11:15 - 12:15 UT).
> About half of  
> those were around 1st to 2nd magnitude, with the
> rest being 3rd  
> magnitude or fainter. One spectacular meteor flashed
> up to about -3  
> magnitude, lighting up some surrounding alto-cumulus
> clouds as it  
> blew past Sirius. My wife saw one through our
> bedroom window just  
> before I headed outside, and she decided that had to
> be the best way  
> to watch this or any other meteor shower. :)
> 
> Like Jimmy, I shot 30 second exposures with my Canon
> Digital Rebel  
> the whole time I was outside. Only one of the
> meteors I noticed was  
> inside the frame of my camera, and it was too faint
> to pull out of  
> the noise in the photo. I did find another exposure
> with a meteor I  
> had not noticed visually. It was just east of Auriga
> and had a path  
> intersecting the southeastern edge of the
> constellation. I'm pretty  
> sure this was well outside the zone for the Alpha
> Aurigid radiant  
> making it a sporadic meteor. It was close though.
> And fairly  
> colorful. The photo can be seen here:
> 
>
http://www.perezmedia.net/beltofvenus/archives/000720.html
> 
> Jeremy Perez
> http://beltofvenus.perezmedia.net
> 
> On Sep 1, 2007, at 9:25 AM, Jimmy Ray wrote:
> 
> > Well the word "Rare" seemed to fit from north
> Glendale. Those folks  
> > out at
> > the dark sites may have faired better but for me I
> had a couple of  
> > meteors
> > from 4:15 to 4:25, then a "flurry" of six from
> 4:26 to 4:31 (4 -  
> > bright's
> > and 2 - "fireballs") then a stray one about 4:45.
> I went in at  
> > 5:00. I had
> > the camera sitting next to me "clicking away" so
> I'll have to see  
> > what if
> > anything was captured (one satellite for sure).
> >
> > Jimmy Ray
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