Author Topic: meteor shower thur. night (Read 489 times)

texasmom · « **on:** January 03, 2008, 09:59:10 PM »

Supposed to be a spectacular meteor show thurs. night.
Best times b/ween 2 - 7 am

AWMac · « **Reply #1 on:** January 03, 2008, 10:00:14 PM »

How's the skies lookin there TxMom?

Mac

texasmom · « **Reply #2 on:** January 03, 2008, 10:01:11 PM »

clear

AWMac · « **Reply #3 on:** January 03, 2008, 10:05:06 PM »

Great!!!!

I'll be alookin.

Mac

cav58d · « **Reply #4 on:** January 03, 2008, 10:10:00 PM »

Will it be visible from the East Coast and if so at what times?

texasmom · « **Reply #5 on:** January 03, 2008, 10:14:43 PM »

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Originally posted by cav58d
Will it be visible from the East Coast and if so at what times?

Yep, I think the 2 - 7 am times are Eastern times. Supposed to be a great show for N. America

cav58d · « **Reply #6 on:** January 03, 2008, 10:17:12 PM »

It's 4 degrees F' right now, but I think i'll try and catch it.

texasmom · « **Reply #7 on:** January 03, 2008, 10:19:57 PM »

Gee whiz ~ tooooo cold for me! I'm the whimpiest eskimo in the whole wide world. I bring shame upon all of my people. If it dips below 50 deg. I'm in triple layers & sipping hot cocoa & whining about how cold it is. I'm not even gonna go check it out. I will see if there's any left-overs when I smoke a morning cigarette ~ that's about it. Other than that, I'll check out the pictures on the internet instead.

Raptor · « **Reply #8 on:** January 03, 2008, 10:24:23 PM »

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Originally posted by texasmom
Gee whiz ~ tooooo cold for me! I'm the whimpiest eskimo in the whole wide world. I bring shame upon all of my people. If it dips below 50 deg. I'm in triple layers & sipping hot cocoa & whining about how cold it is. I'm not even gonna go check it out. I will see if there's any left-overs when I smoke a morning cigarette ~ that's about it. Other than that, I'll check out the pictures on the internet instead.

I have a friend from Texas, she says she likes cold weather but we obviously have different perceptions of what is cold;)
Yesterday it was 10ºF with strong gusts of wind, so it was -7º with windchill. Me being the intelligent person I am went outside to take pictures with my new camera of the mountain/snow scenery.

I'll be out to take pics:aok

Meatwad · « **Reply #9 on:** January 03, 2008, 11:05:37 PM »

Forecasters expect a brief but intense peak of 50+ meteors per hour over Earth's northern hemisphere sometime between 0200 UTC and 0700 UTC on Friday morning, Jan. 4th. (Subtract 5 hours to convert UTC to EST.)

So really its going on right now!

Check the time here

http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl

11:13PM central = 513 UTC

texasmom · « **Reply #10 on:** January 03, 2008, 11:19:31 PM »

Thanks so much meatwad

Check me out assuming that everything runs on EST!

Nice job.
I'll smoke before hitting the rack then & check it out!

rpm · « **Reply #11 on:** January 04, 2008, 01:46:57 AM »

I went outside to watch. Know what I saw? I saw a fool freezing his *** off looking up at nothing!

LePaul · « **Reply #12 on:** January 04, 2008, 02:21:05 AM »

Its -14F here, not counting the wind.

I'll pass on this one

Masherbrum · « **Reply #13 on:** January 04, 2008, 04:27:10 AM »

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Originally posted by rpm
I went outside to watch. Know what I saw? I saw a fool freezing his *** off looking up at nothing!

mipoikel · « **Reply #14 on:** January 04, 2008, 05:12:17 AM »

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Originally posted by LePaul
Its -14F here, not counting the wind.

I'll pass on this one

I remember few years ago when I lived in Rovaniemi , there was -58F (-50c)

Town was like dead, most cars couldnt run at all, air felt really dry. I had to go out just because I wanted to know how it feels. It was quite cool.