My Oct Observing Highlights!

Hi all

Looks like Oct turned out to be another great month for observing, the first half of the month was very cloudy however the 2nd half was great..

* Attended a great EAAS meeting on Comets by Pro Mark Bailey

* Seen one Circumzenithal Arc

* A 22* solar halo

* 22* Sundog

* A section of Parhelic circle

*4 Moon Pillars

* Five 30* Lunar Haloes

* 2 Moondogs

* A lunar Upper Tangent Arc

* I have observed the elusive Gegenschein for 5 nights in a row!

* Observed the Zodical light 3 times

* Made an independant discovery of a SOHO comet in the LASCO C3 images (7th find to date) .

* Many great nights observing Mars

* Visually observed the Merope nebula (NGC1435) in M45 using an 8"telescope.

*Observed Messier 81 with the naked eye!!!

* Observed pink, red and purble colours visually in the Orion Nebula using a 16" instrument.

* Seen two amazing Taurid Fireballs and over a 3 night period seen 247 meteors..most came from the Taurid meteor stream.

* Seen one AMAZING aurora display that was the 2nd best i have ever seen out of 59 displays.

Spent 15 hours 58mins comet hunting bringing my total to 843 hours 45 mins of searching since May 1st 2000. Have swept up 2896 telescopic satellites and 262 telescopic meteors!

Who knows what will happen this month...love this hobby!

Clear skies

1 word

Unbelievable

LOL LOL LOL..thanks Conor....lets hope we see another aurora on the 4th or 5th!!

Lets try 2nite by the way things are looking

Yea i see the density is up and the IMF tilting south sure is promising

Martin that's one impressive list :shock:

If that's what you see in a month, I can't wait to see you report for the year of 2005!

And by the way, you independent discovery of the SOHO comet must be one of the main highlights - let's hope you get to be the first to report one soon.

Keep it up and keep us informed!

Cheers

Dave