(meteorobs) First ETAs

[chiayk1 at singnet.com.sg]

Hi Bill:

   Congrats for seeing a bright ETA. Your experience is pretty to close to mine. The difference is i was sleeping and my system detected a negative magnitude ETA shooting to the south ( near Saggitatrus)my south facing window. 

 see http://nightevents.blogspot.com/

Cheers!
rgds
ykchia
Singapore. 

--- Bill Godley <wwgj180 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I spent 1.25 hours early this morning watching for any ETAs that
> might stray this far north.  I was surprised in looking back at my
> data that I had never seen an ETA.  Maybe I had tried before, but
> weather, moon, etc just kept it from happening.  Anyway, I was
> underway at 3:35  (8:35 UT) on a very cold night for May in Oklahoma
> (near freezing).  Almost an hour later, I was a bit discouraged and
> ready for a warm bed when WHOOOSH (OK, I really didn't hear
> anything), a nice -2 ETA shot to the south.  Just six minutes later,
> a similar performance, this time to the north.  Both gave hints of
> color and exhibited persistent trains of about a second or two. 
> Reenergized, I was going to try to hang in for a two hour session,
> but the baby monitor crackled to life at 10 minutes to 5:00 and it
> was time to go in.
> One SPO early in the session made for a total of three meteors.  In
> retrospect, I really wonder if I was too tired and missed a few
> fainter meteors.  I am going to try to get a little more sleep
> tonight and, weather permitting, try again Monday morning.
> Good luck to others watching for ETAs.
> Bill,
> Coweta, OK
> 
> 
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