Shooting Star (Meteor) in Auriga!

chrisyeo · Post by **chrisyeo** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 2:20 pm

Willie,

Can you tell us more? What a sight it must have been!

What date was it? Do you know? Maybe it was Sept 3rd, coz I saw something on that date.

Actually, why don't you start a new thread on satallite decays and we can talk about it there.

Chris

chrisyeo · Post by **chrisyeo** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 2:36 pm

kcy,

Weren't you at Mars Watch II? If you were you would have seen the ISS.

kruncho · Post by **kruncho** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 4:30 pm

I think it was around that that week or slightly earlier. After MWII im sure. I was with a few other friends, warming up to take some Mars and Moon shots later in the night. Well, the object was up very high up almost zenith towards the west. I viewed it through a C8 and the dispersed fragments were 'floating' and through the scope, it looked like 'open star cluster' with a evening blue background. Magnificent!

chrisyeo wrote:Willie,

Can you tell us more? What a sight it must have been!

What date was it? Do you know? Maybe it was Sept 3rd, coz I saw something on that date.

Actually, why don't you start a new thread on satallite decays and we can talk about it there.

Chris

kcy · Post by **kcy** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 7:14 am

Hmm chris i was at marswatch! But ya noe...i was being chased around the whole resevoir and the adjacent HDB estates. But isnt ISS the same as other satellites? Just another bright dot in the sky 8) . Oh ya...how was the pattern of the ISS?

chrisyeo · Post by **chrisyeo** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 3:58 pm

Hi Zongyao,

I was the guy with the celestron with you and Sam that night.

LOL, you were busy being spiderman and missed the sights.

At about 5am in the morning the ISS made a pass and it was incredibly bright (brighter than Sirius). Those who were there would have remembered it. It was the brightest satellite and one of the first I've ever seen and a wonderful experience. I won't forget it. (thanks to everyone who organised marswatchII!)

Yup, the ISS looks just like any other satellite to the naked eye, but because it's so large, it one of the brightest objects out there. Jean-Yves seems to be the only one here who has imaged it before. Check his website and you can see the 'pattern' of the ISS.

chrisyeo

Post by **zong** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 9:55 pm

oh... hey chris.. say properly la... i tot you refered to me 'busy being spiderman'... i was at marswatchI but went home at 11 cos too cloudy. then didn't go for marswatchII.. so couldn't have been playing spiderman!

The guy with the celestron with me and sam?! who? when? It's like a month since i last touched a scope, preparing all the way for my promos, which (luckily) end tmr...

Last time i did touch a scope was at NPAC watching stars preparing for ANE... grievious you'd be there again ya?

Grievous · Post by **Grievous** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 12:45 am

Last time i did touch a scope was at NPAC watching stars preparing for ANE... grievious you'd be there again ya?

Unfortuantely, No. Due to some things, i prefer to stay out of the Club's proceedings and concentrate on mentoring RP Astronomers. But do try to enjoy the camp eh? Prehaps i would drop by for a night, but thats prehaps.

Charlie