[Turtle]

Originally Posted by orbsycli

it's a new moon, too.

i'm totally going to watch the sky tonight.

By all means watch the Southern sky, but not for the Moon. When it is in the "new" phase, it is in the sky at the same time as the Sun & so invisible.
Jupiter is up now in the South however, & will stay in the sky several hours. The Southern Delta Aquarid meteor shower is also in the Southern sky & peaks in the few hours before dawn.
Eyes to the skys...

[Jay-qu]

will it be visible for me? and since your looking south, should I look north?

[orbsycli]

Just look up, my friend.

See what you can see

[Turtle]

I set my video camera on interval record last night in hopes of taping an Orionid meteor. I got one!

Camera is a Sony Handycam set on SuperNightshot and using interval record mode set to 1 minute intervals and 2 second duration.

YouTube - Fireball

[InfiniteNow]

Originally Posted by Turtle

I got one!

Wow!! That rocks!


When you wish upon a star...

[Jay-qu]

Nice! did you see it with your eyes aswell?

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by Jay-qu

Nice! did you see it with your eyes aswell?

Alas no...it occured at 5:20 am and I was sound asleep. I had failed the last 2 days (nights?) to stay up late enough to watch, so I decided to use the interval setting on the camera on the off chance of catching a meteor on tape. I only spotted it when reveiwing the tape this afternoon.
Chaos favors the prepared imagination.

[TheBigDog]

Awesome Turtle!

I once set up webcam to spy on #1 while he was grounded and I had to leave the house. I got this software free online that recorded constantly, but was motion sensitive. I could set it to keep x seconds before and after motion was detected/ended. If gave me great pictures of #1 sneaking downstairs to watch TV and play video games while I was out of the house. And I didn't have to pour over the 2 minutes that he actually stayed in his room.

Anyway, with software like that and a webcam you could point at the sky all night and only see the times that there is significant change on the screen, plus the desired before and after. It was very cool.

Bill

[Jay-qu]

I have been lucky enough to spy a few myself on a few occasions. Facinating to watch

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by Jay-qu

I have been lucky enough to spy a few myself on a few occasions. Facinating to watch

Excellent! How about a comet? I went out to check for comet SWAN a bit ago, but I have clouds to the West. While you will have to double check for the Southern Hemispere, it is visible in the Northern until around January. Plenty of time for me to try again to get my own blurry photo of it.
Here's some info on its discovery by SOHO and sky maps to find it:

Originally Posted by universetoday.com

The SWAN (Solar Wind ANisotropies) instrument is one of twelve onboard the SOHO (SOlar Heliospheric Observatory) satellite. It is a collaboration between the Finnish Meteorological Institute and Service d’Aeronomie and was constructed by the Finland’s Technical Research Centre. SWAN observes solar Lyman alpha radiation that is scattered by hydrogen atoms flowing into the solar system in all directions of the sky.

Comet Swan, designated C/2006 M4 (SWAN), is the eighth comet discovered with this instrument.

http://www.universetoday.com/2006/10...g-for-a-comet/

Comet SWAN (C/2006 M4)
http://www.aerith.net/comet/weekly/current.html