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Title: Perseid Meteor shower tonight
Post by: Varche on 12 August 2007, 13:30:31

For anyone interested in meteors, tonight is a good time to watch them.

find somewhere without a lot of light pollution, open a bottle, lay back and enjoy the free spectacle. Last night was pretty good here. We found the most were from the North East (look for the W of stars in the sky!)

olive  

Title: Re: Perseid Meteor shower tonight
Post by: iggy21uk on 12 August 2007, 14:50:44

0300 is the best time  :(

Title: Re: Perseid Meteor shower tonight
Post by: TheBoy on 12 August 2007, 16:14:07

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find somewhere without a lot of light pollution, open a bottle, lay back and enjoy the free spectacle. Last night was pretty good here. We found the most were from the North East (look for the W of stars in the sky!)

olive  

My back bedroom then - no lights for miles :D

Title: Re: Perseid Meteor shower tonight
Post by: Nickbat on 12 August 2007, 19:55:19

Yep, should be good. I remember seeing a fireball during a (November) Leonid shower a few years ago. No one else around to share it with at the time, but the colours and vapour trail it left were astonishing. I'd love to see a bolide, which is a special type of fireball which explodes in a bright terminal flash at its end, often with visible fragmentation. Could be some fireballs tonight. You don't have to wait up to the early hours. Basically any time after 10pm local and you should see one or two meteors every five minutes (due to increase to one or two every minute just before dawn).

Good website: http://spaceweather.com/

Happy viewing!

Nick

Title: Re: Perseid Meteor shower tonight
Post by: Baron Von Spongebob on 12 August 2007, 20:15:27

Have a few Stellas and you should see a few more..Wobbly ones at that.. ;D ;D

Title: Re: Perseid Meteor shower tonight
Post by: Golfbuddy on 13 August 2007, 18:00:37

Well, I was sat outside the caravan awning last night, wrapped up in a sleeping bag with me tinny and saw loads of meteors, up to three per minute with some doubles. Stayed up till about 0100 but couldn't keep my eyes open any longer.  :(

Still good display. We also saw a pod of dolphins in St Ives Bay today. There must have been up to a dozen of them and they stayed around for at least a couple of hours. I feel quite at one with nature at the moment.  :) :)

Title: Re: Perseid Meteor shower tonight
Post by: Baron Von Spongebob on 13 August 2007, 18:07:55

Hope your having a good tome Golfbuddy..Not too many cans ;D ;D...

Title: Re: Perseid Meteor shower tonight
Post by: Markie on 13 August 2007, 18:10:14

saw one of these a few years ago - where darkness means black with no light anywhere. On tbe very North of the Isle of Lewis....pretty wonderful viewing  8-)

Title: Re: Perseid Meteor shower tonight
Post by: Golfbuddy on 13 August 2007, 18:13:38

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Hope your having a good tome Golfbuddy..Not too many cans ;D ;D...

Thanks mate. Having the best time. One of the best years ever down here. I have even taken up running for some inexplicable reason.  :-? :-? :-?