Missed the big meteor? Me too. Solidarity thread.

[jonathan]

Yep. But which reason is the worst? I had my scope outside and did see a smaller fireball, I thought 'Wow, that was nice! Best one for a while.', then went inside to get warm until Jupiter came up past the tree line. Then I read on here about this massive fireball, gutted!

Then, when I did go back outside, I discover that my refractor has turned into a dew magnet while I was inside, every surface and lens is dripping. It also toppled over on the grass (which is soaking wet with dew) as I tried to get a better view of Jupiter up the garden. No harm done, and the view of Jupiter wasn't particularly awe-inspiring after it all, just a small white circle with four dots around it - seen it before, but much better. I probably sound all bitter about missing the big meteor, well I am! Hmph!

Your hmph thoughts welcome...

[M4lcs67]

Blimey. Just saw it on the news this morning. Looked fantastic. Wish I had seen it for real, but was tucked up in bed with the flu when it came down anyway.

[8kids]

I missed by about 5 mins.......I didn't want to see it anyway...... :cry:

[yeti monster]

I was the wrong side of the planet....

[Hex]

I missed it too, wasting my time watching Sale being taken apart by London Welsh.. devastated.

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[JohnC]

I was sat at the laptop viewing the forum instead of being outside

Miffed, but serves me right.

If its clear get out there!

[Helicon]

Missed it too! ,decided not to set up last night as it was quite cloudy and misty... ahhh never mind !!

[SeedyF]

Well it was raining here at 8.30pm so there was no danger of me setting up but I'm glad I went for a nice meal with the wife instead!

[ianaiken]

I was busy packing up my telescope and didn't have my eyes to the sky

[Ganymede12]

When was this?

[jonathan]

I went inside about 10.30 and learned of this fireball meteor when I was reading these forums at about 11pm (last night, 21st September).

[faulksy]

my scope was out and had just aligned it,optics had dewd up so turned heaters up and went in to make a brew, thats when i missed it.but on the flip side had my best views of jupiter ever was using 300x up untill around 2 then seeing got worse didnt know there was that many bands on jupiter.great night

[Ganymede12]

Yesterday I was doing more important things. Like picking up my own Skyliner 200P dob!

I didn't get to use it that night but I did see a shooting star!

[Altair]

Last night I was out with about 16 astronomy enthusiasts from our Society, who were enjoying an indian meal at a restaurant.. so none of us saw it. and we came out about 10.50pm! None of us looked up! Mind you i think it was cloudy...

NO worries i am sure another piece of burning up debris will be along in a while....))

[Monty]

I was sleeping while waiting for the clouds to clear.

[Stu]

I was in bed

Glad there is some video of it around though

Stu

[sallystar]

I was in bed as it was cloudy here so I went to bed early. Typical though as I never seem to be in the right place at the right time!

[K3ny0n]

Night shift at work which was overtime! Damn!

Rob

[petermarknimmo]

Apologies for swearing but being ill is a pain in ***

[David Smith]

Was raining here

[Jake Bullit]

I was watching the bbc program on asteroids at the time, oblivious to the real thing happening at the same time.

Wasn't it space junk?

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[JonnyP]

I had just packed my kit up and gone inside I think. I'd spent an hour pottering around the perfectly clear sky with no enthusiasm because I'd just had a huge row with my wife........ We might be speaking by the next time it's clear!

[Bluey]

I don't believe it happened, looks like a hoax to me.

[SteveA]

I missed by about 5 mins.......I didn't want to see it anyway...... :cry:

No me neither....it was only a shoting star after all!

I was watching TV and niping outside evrey 15 mins or so to check the cloud status...in truth I'm gutted to have missed it. Quite please however that I'm not the only one!

[SteveNickolls]

Would have been brilliant to have seen it. We have cloud again coming over tonight but I will do some checks outside at intervals and camera ready just in case.

Steve