Ever Seen a Good Meteor Shower?

[Halo]

Tonight is supposed to be another great annual meteor shower.  I can't remember the last time I've seen a good one.  Way too many lights in suburbia, often cloudy, and I'm too lazy to drive into the dark country for better viewing although I've done that once or twice and the results were okay.

Growing up in Southern Indiana, you could lie on the grass and lose yourself in infinity in awe at so many stars going on forever.  As in the song, truly diamonds in the sky.  

Moving to big city 'burbs has been good news / bad news: more light all night long for safety and visibility, but a loss of the deep dark mysterious.

Just curious -- do you enjoy meteor showers and do you regularly get to see good ones?

[VWE]

I guess it depends on where in the world your watching, cause over here in Iraq last night I didn't see squat.

[texasmom]

Nope, seen sprinkles... but not a good shower. Got three sons, who all enjoy an outing to see if we can see one.

Did see the entire beauty of the milky way when we lived out in CA though. went out into the mojave, flipped the lights off & sat for about 5 minutes & the sky just lit up.

Must be spectacular to see that out on the seas, where there's a reflection of it.

[Meatwad]

I may get up early tomorrow morning and check it out. So far I heard the most was about 1 per minute before sunrise.  There really isnt a good place to sit and watch them at around here.


It sucks living in an apartment.

No yard and around here if you are out in the country watching them, chances are a cop will show up because you are a "suspicious person"

[moot]

It's a northern hemisphere thing, and I mostly see reports of best time/places for sighting in the US, so Iraq may be out of the sight.

[storch]

I sure have,  we used to travel from miami to orlando and back quite a bit.  there are some stretches of the florida turnpike where you are far from city lights and we have experienced some spectacular meteor showers.  also I spent four years in the navy forty-two months of them aboard a destroyer.  that allowed for plenty of star gazing while underweigh.

[Dago]

I saw a meteor last night.

[Vudak]

I haven't seen a meteor shower for many years, but I hear what you're saying about the backwoods viewing being the best.

My family has a home up in Crown Point, on Lake Champlain.  There is literally nothing around there that lights up the night after 9pm or so.  On clear nights, you can see just about every star up there, and the black spaces inbetween aren't really black, but a gray mist pattern almost, which are just stars even further away.  It's a wonderful sight.

Then, here at home in CT, about 10 miles or so from Hartford, Im lucky if I can see the Big Dipper

[ROC]

When I was a great deal younger, about 21 years ago, I took off for a motorcycle ride.

Lasted about 2 years

Best Night was out in Wyoming.  Got on a dirt road and just rode for the entire day out into the middle of nowwhere.  Camped that night on top of a Butte.

No moon.  No Town visible, so far off the highway that I couldn't see a man made light.

There were so many stars I could see my camp clearly.  Couple of meteorites just lit the sky up.

Was breathtaking, will never forget the site, have yet to see it duplicated.

[Jack16]

The good thing about this meteor shower is that there isn't any moon to interfere, so you can see the more fainter meteors.

[moot]

ROC that's really cool.  I'm doing that asap..

[AKIron]

I watched one in the middle 1960's that was spectacular.

[Blank]

ya is the Perseid meteor shower tonight, no moon so extra dark too. just layed out on my lounge floor looking out the balcony doors at maybe 1/8 the sky, live next to the river in middle of town so alot of light pollution but saw 4 directly and a bunch in my perifery, would be amazing out in the countryside.

prob be better later, but I'll be asleep then, times 12am here right now



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[USRanger]

Caught an awesome one in Virginia in '93.  Hundreds and hundreds of meteors for over 2 hours.  Makes ya look at us and the universe a little different after seeing it.

[TalonX]

Originally posted by VWE
I guess it depends on where in the world your watching, cause over here in Iraq last night I didn't see squat.

The shower is tonight....but it might be daytime there.