Perseid Meteor Shower

**Catfishsteve** · 08-11-2008, 12:39 PM

Yeah, I usually try to catch a bit of this every year. Sometimes it's a really good show!!

Alex T. · 08-11-2008, 05:22 PM

OBG,
Any special direction,except up, in the sky to look?? Hoping to see this while in the middle of nowhere keeping your stock prices good.

Alex

OldBaldGuy · 08-11-2008, 06:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex T.

OBG,
Any special direction,except up, in the sky to look?? Hoping to see this while in the middle of nowhere keeping your stock prices good.

Alex

from StarDate Online:
The Perseid shower is at its peak late tonight. At best, you might see a few dozen of its "shooting stars" racing across the sky in just a few hours.

The Perseids are named for the constellation Perseus. If you traced the path of each meteor, they'd all point back toward Perseus, which clears the horizon in the north-northeast in late evening.

But the real parent of the Perseids is Comet Swift-Tuttle -- a big ball of ice mixed with rock and dirt. As it comes close to the Sun, some of its ice vaporizes, releasing small bits of the rock and dirt. These particles spread out along the comet's orbit. Earth flies through this orbital path every August, so it sweeps up some of the particles. They vaporize as they streak into our atmosphere at tens of thousands of miles an hour, forming the streaks of light known as meteors.

Unfortunately, you can't see most of them without really dark skies -- away from city lights, and away from moonlight. With the gibbous Moon in the sky, you won't see many meteors.

But there is a bright side -- or is it a dark side? Anyway, the Moon sets around 2 or 3 in the morning, depending on your location. So that leaves a few hours of dark skies for watching Perseid meteors.

Or, you could just look up...

Frosch · 08-11-2008, 08:57 PM

Thanks for the heads up OBG. I wish I was still out at Rock Creek, no worries about light pollution out there.

**Catfishsteve** · 08-12-2008, 08:13 PM

anyone else going out for this tonight?

obert · 08-12-2008, 08:56 PM

Definently, I don't have to work tomorrow so I'll be out. Not sure where yet though.

Wirenut · 08-13-2008, 07:17 PM

We saw several of these last night on an evening 'toon ride.

**Catfishsteve** · 08-14-2008, 08:22 PM

Some years I've seen this shower where it was like a fireworks display almost.

This year was a bit less, I guess.

OldBaldGuy · 08-15-2008, 12:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Catfishsteve

Some years I've seen this shower where it was like a fireworks display almost.

This year was a bit less, I guess.

It might have been better if you'd gone out a 2 a.m. on the 12th instead of one day later, Steve. Don't blame the meteors!

**Catfishsteve** · 08-15-2008, 12:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OldBaldGuy

It might have been better if you'd gone out a 2 a.m. on the 12th instead of one day later, Steve. Don't blame the meteors!

Dang that Copernicus!!

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