meteor shower

[falcor]

this sunday at 5am, est. i'll be up - this is gonna be rad. the biggest one ever!

[frogbelly]

You need a shower. Those pits....whew daddy!

[Ryan]

Originally posted by falcor
this sunday at 5am, est. i'll be up - this is gonna be rad. the biggest one ever!
ugh with our luck the sky will be cloudy! anyway..ill be up for this ..thankfully i live in a part of jersey that the smog has to fully destroy any visibiity at night

[Robocon^^]

is it Leonid time again? A couple years back, I saw some juicy chunks shoot across the sky. One streaked overhead with a trail of green smoke that stayed in the air a few minutes. I swear I could hear it sizzle as it streaked by ...

[BooBoo-Kitty]

mmmmmmmm showertime baby.

[falcor]

supposedly this is going to be the largest one ever, at 70 per minute. i've never seen one before so i'll be up all night, wired on coffee et al. wheeee.

[simplysue]

Here's a piece on the action - this storm won't probably happen again until 2099, so skygazers take note -

http://www.astrosociety.org/news/astronews/currentastro.html

Enjoy!

[Robocon^^]

clear skies hold out please...
http://weather.yahoo.com/graphics/satellite//hawaii.jpg

[nancyK]

omg thank u soo much!
I LOVE stars.. i wanted to be an astronomer throughout High school .. but after i got into college, I started to think about the financial aspect of my future & switched my majors

[falcor]

that's ok. i wanted to be a marine biologist but i can't swim that well. :P

[Decadent1]

i am going to set my alarm for 4:45 but i have a feeling that i will unconsciously press snooze because my body does not like fucked up sleep patterns

[gomi]

I want to see it, but it's not as fun if you're all alone. Too bad all my friends are morons who just want to get wasted at a frat party tonight.

[Ryan]

Originally posted by gomi
I want to see it, but it's not as fun if you're all alone. Too bad all my friends are morons who just want to get wasted at a frat party tonight.
doesnt have to be a big event...just open your window and look up

[Decadent1]

i hate computers and what they have done to me

[Robocon^^]

Originally posted by nancyK
omg thank u soo much!
I LOVE stars.. i wanted to be an astronomer throughout High school .. but after i got into college, I started to think about the financial aspect of my future & switched my majors You were an astronomy major? Cool. At least take some classes for science credits while you're there. Nothing wrong with being an amateur astronomer on the side once you graduate.

[Sleepy Introvert Ninja]

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[Robocon^^]

Anyone get any good views in? Today was my B-day so I hung out until I counted 32 and one for good luck. Clear cool skies, lying back in the sand away from city lights, toes pointed out towards Molokai, surf rumbling on the shore.
There were some juicy ones streaking by. Some straight overhead, others low to the horizon. Awesome night.

[nancyK]

Originally posted by Robocon^^
Anyone get any good views in? Today was my B-day so I hung out until I counted 32 and one for good luck. Clear cool skies, lying back in the sand away from city lights, toes pointed out towards Molokai, surf rumbling on the shore.
There were some juicy ones streaking by. Some straight overhead, others low to the horizon. Awesome night.
yea~ i had a decent view . we went up to the hills into a lil neighborhoood.. really beautiful view.. there were like 20 of us layinig on the asphalt freezing our butts off watching the shooting stars.. it was Beautiful!

[Robocon^^]

...whenever a meteor shot by...everyone was all OOOhs & Aaahs

[BooBoo-Kitty]

happy bday robocon!

we sat out in a residential area as well. eventually we ended up on the floor because craning the neck and trying to lay out on a car doesn't work. meteor showers rock.

[myleftlung]

Haha, great - so it wasn't only me seeing the meteors. I was at a party, heavily under the influence of certain alcoholic beverages - everybody would look to the sky, thank god we weren't hallucinating. :p

[falcor]

i decided to take a little nap instead of staying up. but the freaking alarm didn't go off. my roommate woke up at 4 and shut the alarm off and went back to sleep. dammit dammit dammit!!!!! get any good pics? post them up!

Ok dooods... I got up at 4:30 to see the meteor shower, after going to bed like the hour before. I was sooo tired, but I thought the 70 meteors a minute would have been worth it. Turns out that it decided to turn totally milkshake-like cloudy minutes all of my friends and I find a spot to camp and watch.

I was so pissed and so so tired. Living off of 1-2 hours of sleep a night isn't fun. As a result of a lack of sleep, I lost all sense of caution. I decided suddenly to climb these water towers that they have near by. (I should mention that I was in tank top pajamas this whole time in 30 degree weather). It was all fun until the cops showed up... then i had to run and jump over barbed wire like crazy. My friend cut his hand :-(

[sardonic kitty]

damnit.. I wanted to see but the skies were uber foggy

[Sleepy Introvert Ninja]

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[Eric Nakamura]

in the hills north of LA, we went and saw the shooting stars. It was maybe 15-25 a minute maybe. We couldn't see the whole sky, since you're facing on way or another, but it's fun to hear the commentary while people are watching.

Look at the green tail on that one! That was one bright tail!

eric

[jasonn]

i stayed up last night and my neck got sore. i saw a couple dozen meteors burning in the sky but i could have seen more if only i had turned around.

[archonemis]

Eric> the best places to go are the desert and the beach. The desert isn't built up so there are few city lights. The beach only has city lights on one side of it and if you go to an area where it can't be built densly you get few lights on one side and none on the other.

I went up PCH for twenty or so miles to an area where you get almost no city lighting. My friends and I went to a beach and lied down facing straight up. We stayed there for over an hour with the little buggers streaking accross the sky rather frequently. There were a few that looked like giant flares seen at a distance (well, effectively they were).

Even on the to and from I was able to see tham with my peripheral vision. I wish I could've stayed up later. I was out till 3:10 watching the storm. I didn't get home until 4.

It was worth the lost sleep.

[nancyK]

yeah LA sucks for stargazing. There's always a grey layer of smog. Even when the sky's really clear and nice, you could barely see any stars b/c of the city lights.
Big Bear Lake is niiiiice~! When my church went for our jet ski trip we just laid out on the pier in our sleeping bags and counted the shooting stars.
From where I was, there was at least 1 shooting star every 5 minutes.. At times, there were several consecutive ones.
I HATE it when you look away for a second and you hear everyone 'ooh'ing and you try to look at it but it's too late or you don't know where to look and you end up feeling sorry for yourself

[angoraphobia]

isnt the meteor shower tonite?

[Sleepy Introvert Ninja]

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[shagwerks]

I froze my butt off but i stood outside for about an hour. I saw some of the biggest damn shooting stars i ever thought of. I swear to God that was the coolest thing i ever seen. There were some that even came close enough where you could make out the smoke trails as they blazed green and blue and red. I was a good night to be out at work in the middle of nowhere.

[myleftlung]

Originally posted by angoraphobia
isnt the meteor shower tonite?

That's what I thought. :/

[myleftlung]

Damnit, I totally missed it - and I was up too. I'm depressed now. Die.

[archonemis]

Worry not. In 2099 there'll be another one. Just live til then and you're set. You could even bring your trophy wife. I know I'll bring number 8 to the next show because number 9 will be busy with her new boyfriend.

[Robocon^^]

Originally posted by shagwerks
I froze my butt off but i stood outside for about an hour. I saw some of the biggest damn shooting stars i ever thought of. I swear to God that was the coolest thing i ever seen. There were some that even came close enough where you could make out the smoke trails as they blazed green and blue and red. I was a good night to be out at work in the middle of nowhere.
Yeah, It was weird to watch them coming in so low and fast, but kind of slo-mo at the same time. The colors were so vivid and the form was really detailed. You could see the halo of burning gasses surrounding the dark core. Some of them looked so close.

[nancyK]

I think you guys might have thought it was today because it said Nov 18 1 AM and you interpreted it as Sunday late night

[fmstlr]

Elvis has left the building

[angoraphobia]

dagnabit......im going to have to shoot my boyfriend in the nose....he said it was sunday night and it was saturday night!!!!! *shaking my fist*

[BooBoo-Kitty]

Originally posted by angoraphobia
dagnabit......im going to have to shoot my boyfriend in the nose....he said it was sunday night and it was saturday night!!!!! *shaking my fist*

actually, it was sunday morning....

[angrykitty]

not to be a mush ball or anything, but it was pretty cool, kind of magical. it was neat thinking a lot of strangers across the country shared this experience.

[Tetsuo Shima]

Neat? Neat does not appropriately describe the revelations I saw. Those things were like knives fucking cutting the sky in half and shit. Ninjas couldn't have done a better job.

[angrykitty]

it was neat that it was something that i shared with you and many others, and i have no idea who you are.

[Tetsuo Shima]

Just kidding, kiddo. Don't get so angry little kitty kat.

[Make Room]

I'm a shining star, brighter than the sun. You can probably see the intense, yet warm glow of my gaseous body on these boards if you look carefully enough.

[angrykitty]

Originally posted by Tetsuo Shima
Just kidding, kiddo. Don't get so angry little kitty kat.

what makes you think i'm angry?

no need to be so condescending.

[toomuchchowmein]

I HATE FUCKING METEOR SHOWERS.


so we go up to the canyon,.. thinking its gonna be the usual fun "romp thru the canyon at 90 mph in a car" BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo all these stupid S U V's. i really dislike S U V's. heavily so.

so we park at the usual meeting spot at the top,..f or our run down,.. and i get all these weird ass people asking me "OH YOUR HERE FOR THE METEOR SHOWER, TOO!?" so of course i ahd to say "yeah" to not let them into the little secret society. god i want them to die.

the way down was like a fucking FREEWAY. usually not a car in sight,.. both lanes ready for some sliding action.. grr.

[archonemis]

MY gaseousness can't be seen.

[gomi]

It was too foggy to see it where I was. I was kind of annoyed, but what can you do about that to mother nature?

[honeyroasted]

pure beauty.

[Robocon^^]

http://www.msnbc.com/news/444253.asp?pne=msn#BODY

[archonemis]

I do belive I will check out this alleged wonder.

[invictus]

From a local list that I'm on:

The annual Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak early Thursday morning, August 12. The display occurs every August when the Earth crosses the orbit of Comet Swift-Tuttle and dust particles from the comet burn up as they collide with the atmosphere.

During a typical Perseid display, observers in rural areas see a maximum of about 50 meteors per hour, while those in the suburbs see about half as many, and those of us in the Arroyo see pretty much nothing. But (elsewhere) this is a good year for
observing the Perseids due to minimal interference from moonlight and a real possibility that the shower may be especially intense!

So, to best view the Perseids, go outdoors (as far from city lights as you can get) on August 12 between midnight and dawn. Best time to observe is around 04:00 PDT when the shower is expected to peak. The American Meteor Society recommends viewing the event by lying in a reclining lawn chair with your feet pointing southeast and looking straight up. To see even more stars, I recommend a six pack of Chimay or Delerium Tremors -- my favorites. : )

Because of its relative ease of access, I also recommend driving up the Angeles Crest Highway, past Red Box to the large parking area along the shoulders of the road at Shortcut Canyon (where the Silver Moccasin Trail intersects SR2). You'll find a few coffer dams capped with circular (flying saucer-like) caps that are
perfect for your lounge chairs. For even better viewing, continue a but further on up to Chilao Flats. For us working stiffs, Friday should be OK too. Trust me, there won't be a crowd, but it's still lots of fun and it's free. See you there?

[ocd]

I hope the weather's clear tomorrow and thursday for the meatier shower.

Yay! I'll be up at 4:30 jogging through the dark park looking up.

[domu]

Don't trip on anything. As a serious astronomical event junkie, my first bit of advice to everyone is to get a lawn chair you can lie back in. Seriously. I've fucked my neck up so many times not sorting that out.

[GONG_LORD]

Did anyone else see the 'shooting star' last night around 8PM Pacific?

It had a green flare look to it. It just appeared and then raced across the sky at unbelievable speeds until it vanished over the horizon.

yeah, sorry about that.

[shampoo]

i might want to check this out

i still remember the last time i did, we drove randomly to some not so busy street then we laid down in the middle of the street and looked up, we saw quite a few i believe...

[domu]

Meteor with a green flare is called a bolide. It has heavy nickel and copper content that causes it to flare green dramatically. It was not a UFO cause my visitors did not come last night...

COME SAIL AWAY...

[shawgirl74]

damn, cloudy for the rest of the week...

[Evil Mastermind]

I'll be getting up at 1AM to go see!

Yay! Burning sky rocks!

[shawgirl74]

You're lucky

[ocd]

Aww, you'll catch the meatier shower next year, shaw.

[Evil Mastermind]

Originally posted by shawgirl74
damn, cloudy for the rest of the week...

You should go up into the Ohio mountains for a spectacular unobstructed view.

[Evil Mastermind]

And away I go...

[tangent23]

unfortunately, where i am in australia, we're too far south to catch them this year :(

[Robocon^^]

so anybody get a good show? I looked up, for awhile last night, but didn't see anything and then the clouds came in :(

[ocd]

I didn't see anything.

[Evil Mastermind]

I saw a great many small meteors, and a few larger, brighter ones that left a trail behind. They were shooting in all different directions over most of the sky.

I was lucky enough to get a tip on a good dark spot in So Cal, so up a hill and out on a sleeping bag made for a great view.

[Robocon^^]

Perseids anyone?

[shammy718]

very cool, you guys