Meteor Showers

[Pulse]

Anyone attempting to watch them where they are tonight?

Shooting stars are gracing the night sky with a spectacular light display set to peak on Sunday night.

The annual Perseid meteor shower will be most apparent in the north-eastern part of the sky near the Perseus constellation.

If the skies remain clear, it will offer stargazers the best opportunity for a few years to see the Perseids.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6940962.stm

They are expected to appear between 10pm - 3am, I'm gonna keep an eye out seeing as it's a fairly nice night here in old Blighty.

Edit: Now off to a mate's to use his telescope, adios!

 

[Beerdude26]

Which direction (north/east/south/west) do I have to look? D:

 

[Pulse]

North-east foo'

 

[Beerdude26]

Dammit, no compass around.

 

[-Psy-]

****. Where's the satnav when you need it?

 

[Krynn72]

What time is that in eastern?

 

[lePobz]

You dont need a compass, just get on Google Earth, align North, and work out which way you need to be looking by using your house as a refrence.

I've just driven out in the moors and sat on my car hood/bonnet for half an hour. Clear skies but I only saw one, and even that looked more like a UFO than a falling star. Still, the fresh air was nice.

 

[Godron]

I saw 5! W00TERS!!!

 

[Adabiviak]

11:30pm last night, a meteor apparently hit somewhere near here. It shook the house and we heard a boom unlike anything I've heard before (like a sonic boom without as much punch). My dad, who lives maybe five miles away saw the sky light up like it was noon but didn't see the actual streak of the meteor.

 

[Naudian]

^ That is awesome :O

 

[Baal]

11:30pm last night, a meteor apparently hit somewhere near here. It shook the house and we heard a boom unlike anything I've heard before (like a sonic boom without as much punch). My dad, who lives maybe five miles away saw the sky light up like it was noon but didn't see the actual streak of the meteor.

Go get it, you'll be rich!

Is there a new story of this anywhere?

 

[Adabiviak]

The word on the street is that it hit in Mariposa county somewhere (neighboring county), but I'm waiting for something in the paper to confirm.

edit - I guess it was on Saturday and more around midnight. Here's a preliminary report from the local website.

 

[Pulse]

We set up behind my mate's house in a field and could see everything, some of the meteors were fecking humongous. Could see the milky way just by looking up and we also got a good look at Venus via telescope.

 

[Raziaar]

 

[watermonster]

We've had meteor showers a few days ago, in Dibba, Oman. I saw three shooting stars myself, it was probably a total of 20 that night.

 

[Nabobalis]

I really wanted to see them. I just cba to wait for them. I wonder if people got good pictures of them.