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Re: (meteorobs) Astronomy vs. TV
At 10:07 03-09-97 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 97-09-03 09:56:03 EDT, you write:
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> Malcolm Currie said:
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> >In many thousands of hours' observing, my brightest is -12 (confirmed
> >photographically).<<
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> GWG>>I too have never seen anything near a -15 fireball. My best in 35 plus
> years of observing mostly under the stars (not in a dome) is about -12.<<
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>I've been lucky enough to see at least 2...a -15 which I share with Lunsford
>and a -19...which was so bright that I had to shield my eyes....I have a few
>-10's to -12's as well.
>George Zay
Message from Marco,
Probably my brightest meteor was a daylight fireball in 1986 that must have
been -15 or so.
The next occasion that a meteor may have been that bright for me was the
famous Taurid on 17 november 1995 from Spain. (the one of which we recorded
the sonic booms).
A -10 appeared a year later. But in honesty, I guess that anything brighter
than -10 is difficult to estimate. I think that an estimate like -19 should
be mentioned as near -20.
Marco, the Netherlands.
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to miss it!
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