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Meteor Shower

Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 10:58 pm
by Pixie Tales
Is anyone watching? Can you see any good flashes?
Did anyone do anything Special today during it?
Apparently it is between 1am - 2am for the best sights for us on the east coast.. One of the News stations said between 2- 6 am

I just hope I get to see Something...

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:15 am
by Pixie Tales
awww No one watched early this morning?? :(

it was really cool... we went on the beach.. and saw a few really cool ones.. nice and bright streaks coming down.. and a few that just flashed a bit like a firework..

oh well..
off to work i go

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 1:39 pm
by Sercee
I wanted to watch the shower this weekend. I tried both evenings. But all I got was rain. :(

It's been raining here or very cloudy pretty much a week straight.

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 2:56 pm
by Pixie Tales
aww thats too bad.. we had alot of fun running around on the beach and then getting sand in our shorts :D

seriously, it was really cool...

someone said its going on all week so Good luck with a dry clear sky

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 4:38 pm
by Sercee
Well. the forecast is for rain and cloud till thursday, but aside from that the peak ended this morning. The shower will continue as late as August 24th, from my understanding, but the meteors will be a lot more rare starting immediately. We'll see, though. Maybe I'll get lucky :)

There's another shower coming up on September 1st, the Aurigids. It's apparently a fairly rare shower (not annual like the Perseids) because it depends on a lot of specific things. It'll be harder to see because the moon will be just past full, but supposedly they're a lot brighter in magnitude so they should be visible anyway. I'm going to try for them!