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Monday 3 October 2011

So far so good for Saturday.

The long-range forecast doesn't immediately put me off about Saturday, but it is still a long way off! We have a nice group for the evening, so it should be possible to get some good work done on monitoring the draconids, if any turn up. It would be great, though not at all essential if you could have a look at night-sky maps for the northern horizon (all the weblinks on this site offer them), and get to know you way around in advance.

I aim to map any meteors we see onto the chart, and submit our findings to the BAA, so fingers crossed - you might be part of scientific history in the making. (Or it may just be cloudy - that's part of the excitement of astronomy...)