Herakles Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 Sunday/Monday 16th/17th , I was out with the C80 with my eldest doing some visual stuff. Mainly Orion and The Pleiades. Natasha was blown away at how pretty the sisters looked through the scope . She was amazed at the number of stars seen through it in comparison with the bino's . We spent a good hour together viewing various sites . She saw M42 for the first time and , unpromted by me, said she saw grey fuzz ! Anyway , I stayed out a wee bit longer to try do some imaging . It was whilst doing this that , at 0207 UT , I saw the longest meteor I have ever seen in my life , so far. It came from the area of Monoceros and headed towards Orion , about 2 -3 degress under the belt. It was absolutely huge in length and had glorious colour in the tail . In my estimation it had to be at least three or four times the width of the distance between Salph and Rigel ! As this was streaking amost horizontally I am wondering if I had actually seen my first Earthgrazer ?p.s. Just been confirmed that it probs was an Earthgrazer. I am so stoked about seeing such a glorious site . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hypernova Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 I saw a similar sight a few weeks back, I was looking in the direction of Perseus at about 7pm on October 29th when a bright(ish) meteor appeared below Auriga and tracked across the sky towards andromeda and carried on for a fair bit before disappearing after travelling about half way across the sky. I think it might have been a Taurid. It never got really bright and stayed in one piece, I estimate it was about magnitude 0. Could it have possibly been an earthgrazer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeti monster Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 I think I'll have to claim last nights first geminid as as earth grazer, it was huge, bright and lasted ages (reletively speaking). So beautiful, and I'd swear I could almost here it (my head does add sound tracks to things). Not my first, but the best I've seen in a very long time. Unfortunately the rest that I saw were so much dimmer and more fleeting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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