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Perseid Meteor Shower

Hmm...it'd be nice if it weren't overcast almost every night here :(.
 
It'd be nice if there wasn't this squalid orange glow here.

Though, I might get lucky. Like somedays, I can see mountains!
 
It has started, last night i counted 5 in just as many minutes, and it has just begun.;) Tomorrow night should be the culmination.
 
Correa Neto said:
Perseids are not very visible at the southern hemisphere, unfortunately...
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Oh, well then there is no hope for me, regardless of weather :(.
 
Oh, goody!!

The problem I have is that I am smack dab inside a city, but at least the weather is clear.

I have laid out in the back yard and watched a few of them falling across the sky --- though last year my neighbor had her *&^%$#! security light on that shines directly into my yard.

Nothing beats the time several decades ago when my sisters, my brother, a bunch of his friends, and I spent the night on the hillside behind my dad's house in the middle of the Arizona boondocks watching the whole sky. It was clear, no lights, the Milky Way was strung across with meteors shooting across every few seconds.

One of my brother's friends had this to say: "We are being starred at." Followed by lots of groans.
 
I've never been anywhere really dark at night. Is the Milky Way really as obvious as some of the landscape photos I've seen that included it as a dramatic part of the night sky or is it always just a faint wispiness to the real human eye?
 
Badly Shaved Monkey said:
I've never been anywhere really dark at night. Is the Milky Way really as obvious as some of the landscape photos I've seen that included it as a dramatic part of the night sky or is it always just a faint wispiness to the real human eye?
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Go out to Yellowstone NP, stay in the "pioneer cabins" at Canyon, dark adapt, and look straight up at midnight.

Subtle it is not, in that situation.
 
Even sleeping in the open at camp in Kinlochard on a clear night, it was very obvious. OK, while I was still awake....

Rolfe.
 
Jeez even just the phrase "light pollution" brings out the nut jobs.
Saw an article that NASA will save Hubble. That instrument has probably lent itself to more discoveries the any other man made artifact in history.
 
jj said:
Go out to Yellowstone NP, stay in the "pioneer cabins" at Canyon, dark adapt, and look straight up at midnight.

Subtle it is not, in that situation.
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When I was at Yellowstone back in July the local(from several hours around, this is Wyoming and Montana after all) astronomy club brought out three telescopes. A 10 inch, a 5 and another 4 or 5. The Milky Way looks amazing to the unaided eye. We looked at the Ring Nebula, a globular cluster and Jupiter with three of it's moons in view. The ISS even came over while we were out there. I had never seen it in person before. It looked like a bright white small ball with a halo of blue-white light around it.
 
It's rained solidly every day this week. It is like a monsoon. I haven't had a good night's sleep since Sunday because of the bloody noise. The garden is part submerged. The chickens look like drowned rats.

And now I probably won't get to see the Perseids because of all the cloud.

I thought August was supposed to be Summer?
 
Here at 45 degress north latitude, we've had nothing but cloudy skies for the last three days. I demand a refund.
 
Is that what that was?

I just posted on the SWOYMRN thread that tonight I saw the fattest meteor I've ever seen in my life.
 
Tomblvd said:
In certain, extremely dark spots, given the right conditions, the Milky Way will actually cast a shadow.

It is really that bright.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_Springs_State_Park
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For most of us who care, we wish it were! I have to travel a long way to get any slightest hint of it, sad.

Way to resurrect threadliness! I'm hoping the seeing is good for a while but we are supposed to be in rain the next few days. :(
 
South Africa is the place to see the Milky Way - the west coast with winds off the ocean can be spectacular...

I'd often go out on the beach just to savour the clear sky.

We were in playing cards and one of the guys driving in casual announces.....did you see this....

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...-pToAQ&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=1&ct=image

Thrill of a lifetime...3 nights hovering in the west and that tail went on forever

Southern sky sure looks odd to a north dweller...

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Moon was very bright last night os only the brightest Perseids for North America :(
 
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