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Re: (meteorobs) Re: shimmers
Leo,
Sounds like a nice meteor, but not what I'm describing. What I mean is
something that looks like a little piece of fairly bright aurora that only
lasts a second or less. I still go with a handfull of sand theory, because
of the brief duration I don't go for a little solar wind idea. Besides I saw
them from Anza, CA. at about +34d which is awfully low for a magnetic effect
most of the solar cycle. The only other UFO I've seen was something entirely
different: It looked like a fuzzy, orbiting something (in polar orbit). A
lot like several globular clusters I had just looked at, except this one was
moving among the stars! I watched it move through the sky from Scorpius to
below Polaris in a 70mm lens-equipped intensifier tube. Now that was
wierd... Sorry, getting off subject.
I'll shut up.
John Sanford
Starhome
Sierra Foothills
----- Original Message -----
From: Leo Stachowicz <leo@nitric.dircon.codot uk>
To: <meteorobs@jovian.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 5:39 PM
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Re: shimmers
>
> >Now all we need is a photo to 'prove' it! The ones I saw would need an
> >intensified system to see though, as the whole thing was rather faint
(~4th
> >mag?).
>
>
> I almost got one earlier this year... While i was observing in
Warwickshire
> (UK) a beautiful -2 mag appeared just 5 minutes after my camera had been
> pointing in its direction :((
> It had all the characteristics previously mentioned(apart from its
> exceptional magnitude !) ,slow,orange/golden in appearance and emitting a
> trail of sparksdot it also left a short lived persistent train(lasting
> approximately 1S)
>
> It is one of my most memorable meteors so far,i just wish i hadn't pointed
> that camera in the other direction !
>
> Leo
>
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