[AZ-Observing] Re: Rare Aurigid Meteor Shower
- From: Chris Schur <comets133@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 11:11:59 -0700 (PDT)
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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