Saturday, May 06, 2006

Polling Day Meteors - Eta Aquarids

My len was pointed quite a distance
from etaAquarids radiant
- still the long streaming meteors were detected near the 'c' shaped Corona Australis.
A plot of the three meteors confirmed
their identity - they all intersected in the
circled radiant X
Click image to for a larger view (meteors occurred @ 03:43:36, 04:16:54, 04:27:26)


A long etaAqurids, CrA at lower left corner.

Another going towards CrA

A rather bright one transversed CrA on the right mid- upper.


Frame by frame showing the meteor dragging a thin tail.
Note the arrow-shaped terminal points.

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