10pm til you pass out.
Look to the northeast for a close to Earth Red Mars, too.
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10pm til you pass out.
Look to the northeast for a close to Earth Red Mars, too.
Plus it helps that they are during a new moon this year.
I'm going to try to take some photos.
thanks for the reminder!
Heheh, this time for the first time in 11 years I'm not in NY. Think it'll be any better here in CO? :p
I saw a few last night and they were really bright. Should be a good one tonight.
So on it tonight.
We checked out some last night, but this should be a way better show.
So glad you reminded us! This should be very cool. Glad I live on the West Coast and don't have to stay up till 2 am to see this :) (ok - did I just make a huge astronimical - literally - mistake? I assume if they peak at 2 on the East Coast, they'll peak at 11 on the West Coast, and not 2 am on the West Coast? am I total idiot? rhetorical question.)
Not sure...but what I can tell you is one astronomy club is hosting a gathering from 1am-4am MST.Quote:
Originally Posted by watersnowdirt
Anybody see this last night? I live in fucking NJ. And it was cloudy.
I thought they were on for tonight too?
Sprite
Seemed the same to me as other years. A few long bright ones. Lots of lil ones. More airplanes than flying stars. Maybe 1 per minute or two.
I like seeing them and grand excuse for a late night walk. My neck broke after a half hour so I went to bed.
As far as I know the show peaked late with encores to come over the next few days.
The peak was last night/this morning, but they last for several weeks total... so yes there will be some tonight but not nearly as much.Quote:
Originally Posted by snowsprite
I couldn't make it past 1:30 and wasn't far enough from the city to see the small ones very well. I did see a few big "fireball" ones though.
Somehow, I've missed on this yearly event in the past.
So, I made the effort to drive about an hour from the city to find a good viewing spot in the high country. Set up my sleeping pad and bag and laid out for an hour or so from about 1:30-2:30. There were some huge ones. Every so often, you'd get a good burst with several occuring over 5-10 seconds. Mostly, it was one here or there every few-several minutes.
It was coo. Sky is always more incredible when you get up high and away from the city...there seems to be this "band" that is almost a hazy white across the sky...not sure what it is, but I can only see it in the mountains.
Saw a dozen. It was coo... also the shuttle and ISS
http://www.thisnext.com/media/230x23...y_1A439CC1.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by spthomson
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Originally Posted by Summit
we have a weiner!:D
but - I gotta admit... as a (mostly) city boy, the first time I saw the Milkway from the wilderness (Strawberry Mtn, OR) was.... wait for it.... illuminating.
Got any pics?Quote:
Originally Posted by Summit
Thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Summit
And I feel like an idiot.
I should have known that from 3rd grade science or something. No, I'm not smarter than a 5th grader. :)
nopers... didn't even take the camera... hell didn't even take the beerQuote:
Originally Posted by HikeforTurns
I forgot an important thing...a flashlight last night. I was hiking up a meadow and heard a snort ahead of me....sounded like a Moose so I backed out. Could have been anything.
Went to a different meadow closer to some people, and periodically I took off my headphones so I didn't run into anymore wildlife. 20 minutes later there's this black blob 2 feet from my head, behind me. The music was on super-low, it still snuck up on me pretty good. I don't know what the fuck it was and my ipod was not bright enough when I tried to shine it at the blob.
It scurried off, not too fast though. It could have been a ginormous skunk, maybe a porcupine, maybe a small bear (doubtful?)....too big for a fox, too fat for a coyote. Any ideas what the blob was? I think it was brown and black, but who knows. It didn't run away too fast, I was trying to follow it to get a good look before the skunk thought came to me and I stopped. Before lumbering away, it kinda slowly moved it's head back and forth in a bear-like way....but it would have been a cub then. It had to have had short legs....
I was up LCC, any ideas?
And the meteor shower was average.....but I took off after 'the blob'.
It sounds like basom.
shit! I totally forgot about it! Will it continue tonight?
Don´t stand right in it !!!
important savety advice from Lamb Expeditions - The mountain savety specialists ( voice of guy in tavern in latest star wars movie speaking it ) !
Awwww...shit. I can't believe I missed this. I have the perfect spot too. Doh!!!