Hi Robert,
From the description, you probably saw a fairly typical
bright sporadic meteor. There has also been a good display of the
Taurid shower this week. There was quite an upsurge in the brightness
levels due to an extended clump of larger particles in the stream.
During a couple of comet-hunting session last week, I was gettign an
average of 8-10 per hour brighter than mag 0. We are past the surge
now so numbers from this shower should drop. The brightest I saw
reached about -6 mag.
A sporadic two weeks ago produced the best and brightest fireball
around here for years. I estimated -15 in a dark sky. It lit up Mt
Egmont which is about 20 km form my observing site.
Cheers
Rod Austin
On 11/8/05, Robert Holdsworth <robbonz1@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
>
>
> For once a meteor is on topic in here!
>
> During the recent ISS pass a meteor was observed here without assistance.
> It was in the eastern sky at about 30 to 40 degrees elevation moving roughly
> southeast to northwest at approximately 1616 UTC while the ISS was high in
> the Northwest. However it was not far enough to the northwest to be heading
> toward the station. The meteor was a good mag -1 or more and very brief.
>
> It does not appear that the astronauts on the EVA saw it as no mention was
> made of it on their comms being relayed via NASA-TV, but it is not
> surprising as they were concentrating on doing battle with a TV camera.
>
> They did however mention the beauty of the orbital sunrise just after they
> departed from here.
>
> A pass well worth getting up early for!
>
> (I may get a further report on whether the meteor was seen as I informed a
> work colleague who has not observed the ISS before of the special interest
> of this pass during EVA, but I won't know this for several hours and won't
> be able to post anything till much later if appropriate to do so.)
>
>
>
> Robert
> Wainui
>
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