Submission + - Be the first to photograph an aurigid meteor (seti.org)
rmelton writes: "As previously mentioned on http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/0 8/1830257 The long period comet
"Kiess" laid down debris that will create an unusual meteor shower Sept 1st visible from the western US. These
meteors have never been photographed. Using a ditital camera with long exposure you should be able to
capture images of these meteors. Seti is looking for a picture of the brightest of these.
Chances are that an amateur will catch the brightest Aurigid out there. Even simple cameras can
provide information about how the meteoroids break apart. The color separation can be used as a
simple spectrometer to indicate the meteor composition.
see http://seti.org/news/features/2000-year-old-meteor s-to-rain-down.php or http://aurigid.seti.org/ for more."
"Kiess" laid down debris that will create an unusual meteor shower Sept 1st visible from the western US. These
meteors have never been photographed. Using a ditital camera with long exposure you should be able to
capture images of these meteors. Seti is looking for a picture of the brightest of these.
Chances are that an amateur will catch the brightest Aurigid out there. Even simple cameras can
provide information about how the meteoroids break apart. The color separation can be used as a
simple spectrometer to indicate the meteor composition.
see http://seti.org/news/features/2000-year-old-meteo
