Look at the sky! Not at the sun, at the stars!!!

Sunshine · 2013-08-11 10:44:26

Just a reminder....

There is a big meteor shower going on!!! It's called the Perseid meteor shower. I can see it going on pretty good right now. Sunrise is in about 2 hours at about 6:45am so it's still nice and dark. One good thing about living up north and in the middle of nowhere is that we have no city lights to mess with our sky. Northern lights (aurora borealis) may mess with the viewing, but not too much. I've seen quite a few. It isn't like 1 or 2 random ones. It's a lot! I saw maybe 50 in 30 minutes. Many of them are just short and fast, but I've seen some pretty large ones that looked like they moved really slow. Pretty damn cool. The best night to see them will be Monday night, but they are still good now

There are some live feeds from cameras on http://www.space.com/22329-perseid-mete … ekend.html if you are interested as well.

say · 2013-08-11 12:25:50

It sounds romantic <3 Only things which r missing r 2 spoons & big pail of icecream

Denny · 2013-08-11 13:32:38

say wrote:

It sounds romantic <3 Only things which r missing r 2 spoons & big pail of icecream

lol, and a table, dinner, bottle of the most expensive champagne, candles...

Sunshine · 2013-08-11 20:48:54

Oh yes. Rocks flying in at a bazillion miles per hour looking like evil fireballs reighning down on earth with epic force is so romantic.

Lame lol

To hell with romantic whatnot. This is nature showing that shit just got real!

Hemnes · 2013-08-11 22:49:45

Sunshine wrote:

Oh yes. Rocks flying in at a bazillion miles per hour looking like evil fireballs reighning down on earth with epic force is so romantic.
Lame lol
To hell with romantic whatnot. This is nature showing that shit just got real!

*kisses*

joint · 2013-08-11 23:45:41

i see nothing, probably this show is for USA only:(

Sunshine · 2013-08-11 23:54:29

joint wrote:

i see nothing, probably this show is for USA only:(

No, it's for those in northern hemisphere. You may be too far south though . My cousin in southern Spain can't see them neither

Flying Dutch BREAD · 2013-08-12 00:01:50

I want to see that thing its a once in a lifetime thing

joint · 2013-08-12 00:42:22

Sunshine wrote:

joint wrote:
i see nothing, probably this show is for USA only:(
No, it's for those in northern hemisphere. You may be too far south though . My cousin in southern Spain can't see them neither

my place is more northen (48° 27') then yours(39° or something), its probably bad weather, and the light pollution,
however i think i just saw one..

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Telrin · 2013-08-12 02:34:21

Big thanks, Sunshine. Definitely I will go far away from city lighting to countryside at the nigth 12-13 august. Without you I would forgotten about that event this year. *kisses*

Flying Dutch BREAD wrote:

I want to see that thing its a once in a lifetime thing

Actually it's annual happening.
So, Flying Dutch BREAD, if you don't planning die this year.. Perseids will be here again next august.

joint, today night will best time to look at the Perseids from 22:15. Radiant of Perseid can be founded very simple using google app called "Google Sky Map".
Or you can look to the North-East

Sunshine · 2013-08-12 02:39:25

joint wrote:

Sunshine wrote:
joint wrote:
i see nothing, probably this show is for USA only:(
No, it's for those in northern hemisphere. You may be too far south though . My cousin in southern Spain can't see them neither
my place is more northen (48° 27') then yours(39° or something), its probably bad weather, and the light pollution,
however i think i just saw one..

Noo. 39 degrees is way south. I am about 48 degrees as well.

Sunshine · 2013-08-12 02:43:18

Yah dutchy, there are many meteor showers every year. Maybe you are thinking of the comet that made this shower? It comes around every 130 years or something. But these meteors come every summer

There was another shower a few months ago and one in the winter. The best is still coming this December (Geminids) ^.^

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joint · 2013-08-12 02:52:16

Sunshine wrote:

joint wrote:
Sunshine wrote:
No, it's for those in northern hemisphere. You may be too far south though . My cousin in southern Spain can't see them neither
my place is more northen (48° 27') then yours(39° or something), its probably bad weather, and the light pollution,
however i think i just saw one..
Noo. 39 degrees is way south. I am about 48 degrees as well.

i thought you are from Kansas

Telrin · 2013-08-12 02:55:37

List of meteor showers at 2013 year (on Russian language)
Max ZHR has Geminids (maximum at 14 december). Also Leonides is good visible (maximum 17 november)

added:
Same info in english (pdf). Table 5 at page 21

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joint · 2013-08-12 03:03:33

names of Meteorstromes are awesome)

Telrin · 2013-08-12 03:10:12

To know where to seek they named according the constellations

Sunshine · 2013-08-12 06:51:19

joint wrote:

Sunshine wrote:
joint wrote:
my place is more northen (48° 27') then yours(39° or something), its probably bad weather, and the light pollution,
however i think i just saw one..
Noo. 39 degrees is way south. I am about 48 degrees as well.
i thought you are from Kansas

I've never been to Kansas lol

say · 2013-08-12 07:34:20

This year is expected maximum at 12 August between 20:15 CEST to 22:45 CEST(central europe summer time), the hourly rate is usually around 80 to 100 meteors. I wish you a beautiful observation event.

& yee flying rocks are romantic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdGqaweeP20

ziba128 · 2013-08-13 17:42:37

Yesterday I was in my country and in the evening I noticed that the sky was extremely clear. I've never seen so many stars in it. I just stayed and looked at them, and only when a meteor flew over my head I remembered about Sunshine's message Saw around 12 meteors, 4 of them were very bright and had a long tail. Their speed was crazy

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Denny · 2013-08-13 19:29:13

ye i went to see the night sky for about 20 secs, i saw one meteor, its really cool how fast it pass

and thanks to telrin i remembered to watch to N-E
telrin, are u an astronaut?

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Sunshine · 2013-08-13 19:39:43

I saw many early this morning before sunrise. It was amazing with northern lights.

Telrin · 2013-08-14 02:18:46

Denny wrote:

ye i went to see the night sky for about 20 secs, i saw one meteor, its really cool how fast it pass
and thanks to telrin i remembered to watch to N-E
telrin, are u an astronaut?

Denny, did you really had in mind "astronaut"?

Could be "astronomer"?
Although anyway my answer is not. Rather stargazer-dreamer. Now I thinking about buying a cameras with optical zoom 40-60 to take pictures of Jupiter, like at the telescope objective. Tried this with usual camera, without zoom, and was surprised, got the shot where you will able to recognize the colors of surface.

We looked at the falling stars from the bridge yesterday night. And when dropped first, reaction the girl with whom I was watching, was about: "Aaa! Here it is! Here it is!!! HERE IT IS!!! HERE IT IS!!!"
I didn't calculate count of a usual meteors, but we saw pair very glowing ones. I think at least one of them was a bolid. He was falling so long, 4 or 5 sec. At first he was a bright, then flashed even brighter and then was dimmed. That was awesome!

Here a thunderstorm now. That's great, but the stars isn't visible.

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