[Chaos-l] [Medoc-mountain-men] last night

[Robert Nielsen]

Doing some quick research on the web, it looks like there is a meteor shower called the "Annual Andromedids" (different from another shower called the "Andromedids") that is supposed to peak September 25th.  I wonder if that was what we saw.

Robert

On Sep 22, 2012, at 5:26 PM, Alexey Toptygin <alexeyt at freeshell.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Sep 2012, Mark Montazer wrote:
> 
>> I took a number of pictures last night, not many were noteworthy, but
>> I did manage to get an hour on the Triangulum Galaxy. It probably
>> needs 3-4 more hours of exposure, but the core is well defined and the
>> arms are starting to show up nicely. Here's a link to the image:
>> 
>> http://www.astrobin.com/full/20700/
> 
> That's neat! I like how you can see the dark lanes between the arms extending almost to the core.
> 
>> Also, regarding the meteor activity last night, I think it might have
>> been the Gamma Piscids (which seem to be elusive):
>> 
>> http://meteorshowersonline.com/showers/gamma_piscids.html
> 
> I'm not sure if that's it: the brighter meteor I saw moved southwards parrallel to the alpha-gamma side of the pegasus rectangle, towards delta in Pisces. The dimmer one I saw was, IIRC, moving from Andromeda towards Perseus.
> 
>           Alexey
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