Perseids meteror shower tonight

**Benny Profane** · 08-12-2007, 06:50 PM

10pm til you pass out.

Look to the northeast for a close to Earth Red Mars, too.

**dbp** · 08-12-2007, 06:52 PM

Plus it helps that they are during a new moon this year.

I'm going to try to take some photos.

**stuckathuntermtn** · 08-12-2007, 06:56 PM

thanks for the reminder!

**gravitylover** · 08-12-2007, 07:13 PM

Heheh, this time for the first time in 11 years I'm not in NY. Think it'll be any better here in CO?

**Mach Looney** · 08-12-2007, 07:14 PM

I saw a few last night and they were really bright. Should be a good one tonight.

**Tresckow** · 08-12-2007, 07:43 PM

So on it tonight.

We checked out some last night, but this should be a way better show.

**watersnowdirt** · 08-12-2007, 07:48 PM

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.)

**FiveLarge** · 08-12-2007, 08:17 PM

Originally Posted by watersnowdirt

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.

**Benny Profane** · 08-13-2007, 01:51 PM

Anybody see this last night? I live in fucking NJ. And it was cloudy.

**snowsprite** · 08-13-2007, 01:54 PM

I thought they were on for tonight too?

Sprite

**FrankZappa** · 08-13-2007, 01:59 PM

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.

**dbp** · 08-13-2007, 02:03 PM

Originally Posted by snowsprite

I thought they were on for tonight too?

Sprite

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.

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.

**FiveLarge** · 08-13-2007, 02:17 PM

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.

**summit** · 08-13-2007, 02:20 PM

Saw a dozen. It was coo... also the shuttle and ISS

Originally Posted by spthomson

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.

**flatNshallow** · 08-13-2007, 02:41 PM

Originally Posted by Summit

Saw a dozen. It was coo... also the shuttle and ISS

we have a weiner!

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.

**HikeforTurns** · 08-13-2007, 02:45 PM

Originally Posted by Summit

Saw a dozen. It was coo... also the shuttle and ISS

Got any pics?

**FiveLarge** · 08-13-2007, 02:52 PM

Originally Posted by Summit

Saw a dozen. It was coo... also the shuttle and ISS

Thanks.

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.

**summit** · 08-13-2007, 03:17 PM

Originally Posted by HikeforTurns

Got any pics?

nopers... didn't even take the camera... hell didn't even take the beer

**slippy** · 08-13-2007, 03:31 PM

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'.

**Roo** · 08-13-2007, 03:37 PM

It sounds like basom.

**stuckathuntermtn** · 08-13-2007, 06:19 PM

shit! I totally forgot about it! Will it continue tonight?

**0BernhardFranz** · 08-13-2007, 06:30 PM

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 ) !