Perseid Meteor Shower Tonight- Sunday August 12-Mon Aug 13th

[Emberchyld]

Don't forget to watch the Perseid meteor shower tonight...
How perfect an ending for Federation day!

[TSara]

So being that I'm in the East coast of the US.

What area of the sky to I need to look at in order to see anything?


I love watching these things!

[Emberchyld]

So being that I'm in the East coast of the US.

What area of the sky to I need to look at in order to see anything?


I love watching these things!

From what I can gather... up. I looks like it'll just appear to be overhead....

[Elessar]

How'd it show up?

[justTripn]

It was only medium exciting, for those with a clear view. Like 20 meteors per hour. I had a foggy view so I went back to bed.

Below are some video clips taken by Larry McHenry, of our Pittsburgh astronomy club.
Quoting Larry:

The first one is a 7 second clip of the Perseid going thru Cygnus at ~11:29 PM.
http://home.comcast.net/~lemastro/vidca ... 07_001.avi

Last is a 14 second clip of a huge 'bolide' passing thru the Summer Triangle!

http://home.comcast.net/~lemastro/vidca ... 07_003.avi

Me again: Hmm . . . since these meteors cross each other's paths they are not both Persieds. That's very possible, but there is a wink preceeding the second clip, so it may be something other than a meteor.

[Elessar]

*POINTS FANATICALLY*

IT'S A UFO!! IT'S A GOVERNMENT COVERUP! THE PERSEIDS ARE REALLY AN ANNUAL TRADE CONFERENCE OF ALIEN CIVILIZATIONS!!!

[justTripn]

I think the "joke" is that it's a sattelite and I'm supposed to be able to guess which one.

[justTripn]

OK, I asked.

It's a low-flying plane heading into the county airport! Sorry!

[JadziaKathryn]

*POINTS FANATICALLY*

IT'S A UFO!! IT'S A GOVERNMENT COVERUP! THE PERSEIDS ARE REALLY AN ANNUAL TRADE CONFERENCE OF ALIEN CIVILIZATIONS!!!

You know, my mom and I were looking tonight (saw a few) and we also saw this weird light that wobbled around. It'd go in little tiny triangles and such. We rationally figured it's a satellite of some sort, but you never know.

Isn't the August show because Earth passes through a patch with a lot of space junk?

[justTripn]

I'm guessing the weird little light was a green lazer pointer. No sattelites go in wobbly triangles.

Oh and the Persieds meteor shower (and all the other meteor showers happen when the Earth passes through where a comet's orbit and hits the the trail of particles it left behind.

[Elessar]

JT's a gov't agent... I learned that when I met her... she kept recieving *strange phone calls* and eyeing me suspiciously, whispering into her headset phone saying... "Operation Jade Monkey is a 'Go'..."