Perseid Meteor Shower - tonight?

[Candlelight]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseids

Keep your eyes peeled.

 

[trampledamage]

Unfortunately I think there's too much cloud here tonight.

 

[Jax]

Saw this in 2007 loved it missed it last year saw a real big fucker just cream it self on hitting the O Zone, dam that was good but I don't live in the same home that had a pitch black field 30 seconds this garden might be ok

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

There's too much light pollution around here.

 

[Finn]

Probably too much clouds tonight, like most of this summer.

 

[RJDiogenes]

We had thick fog last night. Hopefully, tonight will be better.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

It's raining and the ground is wet. No meteor showers for me it seems....

 

[Finn]

Unless a big one comes blazing through the clouds and crashes in these hills out front...

 

[FordSVT]

Best time to see these tonight if I missed them this morning would be... 11pm - midnight and later I think?

 

[Zulu Romeo]

The sun has come out now. Forecast suggests patchy cloud, possible clear skies. Could be in for a hell of a night.

 

[Deckerd]

Yes it's got sunny here in Scotlandshire. I'll try to remember to go and look. I remember getting everyone out of bed to see a lunar eclipse one time. How they thanked me.

 

[RoJoHen]

My drunk neighbor was staring at an airplane last night thinking it was the meteor shower.

 

[Jadzia]

My drunk neighbor was staring at an airplane last night thinking it was the meteor shower.

Or the moon.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

My drunk neighbor was staring at an airplane last night thinking it was the meteor shower.

Or the moon.

No, that would be alien spaceships.


The BBC website has a news item on the subject (the Perseids, not UFOs ) complete with a weather forecast from the delightful Laura Tobin, of whom much has already been said on these pages....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8197303.stm






EDIT:

Hmmm, one of the recommended places is Mam Tor. That's only a short distance from where I live! Let's hope the skies remain clear tonight - I might even head out tonight and see...

If it's a good show, it'll probably make up for the disappointment when I missed out on the last major Leonids storm back in November 1998.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

I managed to catch some meteors streaking through the sky this morning. So yay!

 

[Plecostomus]

ROCKS FALL EVERYONE DIES

 

[Deranged Nasat]

I saw them last year, but don't feel like staying up tonight.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Still cloudy and marginally foggy. No celestial spectacle for me....

 

[tomalak301]

There's too much light pollution around here.

Same here. I would love to just take a stargazing trip one of these times. I really enjoyed doing that as a kid and want to get back into it.

 

[C. Cole-Chakotay]

Too much light around here to see anything. I can see the moon and a few stars, but that's about it.