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flymanwms
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Reged: 07/06/07
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Loc: Mississippi
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unknown shower around moon
11/02/09 05:48 PM
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I just recently purchased an Orion EON 80mm to piggyback atop my Celestron CPC1100. I set it up on Halloween night to test it out on the rising moon. While observing, I noticed a small bright meteorite-type trail zoom past the left side of the moon from top to bottom. Soon after, about 7 or 8 more zoomed by with one passing in front of the moon with a dark trail. I ran inside and grabbed my Nikon D90, focused, and recorded about 3 minutes of video. Unfortuneately there was no capture and when going back to the eyepiece there were no further events.
These objects were traveling west to east. I think I had a 24mm eyepiece with diagonal only and it took about 3 seconds for each to cross the field of view.
Is this a common occurrence or was I just lucky to witness something?
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Celestron CPC1100
Mitty wedge (CPC)
Orion EON 80mm refractor
Hyperstar 2
Meade DSI II monochrome
Meade DSI color (one-shot)
Nikon D90
http://astrophotography.ezwebplans.net/
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