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Title: meteor shower thur. night
Post by: 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

Title: meteor shower thur. night
Post by: AWMac on January 03, 2008, 10:00:14 PM

How's the skies lookin there TxMom?

Mac

Title: meteor shower thur. night
Post by: texasmom on January 03, 2008, 10:01:11 PM

clear  :)

Title: meteor shower thur. night
Post by: AWMac on January 03, 2008, 10:05:06 PM

Great!!!!

I'll be alookin.

:)

Mac

Title: meteor shower thur. night
Post by: cav58d on January 03, 2008, 10:10:00 PM

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

Title: meteor shower thur. night
Post by: texasmom 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 :)

Title: meteor shower thur. night
Post by: cav58d on January 03, 2008, 10:17:12 PM

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

Title: meteor shower thur. night
Post by: texasmom 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. :aok

Title: meteor shower thur. night
Post by: Raptor 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. :aok

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

Title: meteor shower thur. night
Post by: Meatwad 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

Title: meteor shower thur. night
Post by: texasmom 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!

Title: meteor shower thur. night
Post by: rpm 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!

Title: meteor shower thur. night
Post by: LePaul on January 04, 2008, 02:21:05 AM

Its -14F here, not counting the wind.

I'll pass on this one  :)

Title: meteor shower thur. night
Post by: Masherbrum 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!

:D :rofl

Title: meteor shower thur. night
Post by: mipoikel 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 (http://maps.google.fi/maps?f=q&ie=UTF8&hl=us&q=Rovaniemi&z=8&iwloc=addr&om=1) , 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.:)

Title: meteor shower thur. night
Post by: DREDIOCK on January 04, 2008, 06:41:26 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!

Yup. I saw the same thing.
So.
you saw me too eh?

I lasted about two minutes then said. "Screw this. I've seen them before. I'll wait for the one in August."

Title: meteor shower thur. night
Post by: Meatwad on January 04, 2008, 06:57:07 AM

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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Yup. I saw the same thing.
So.
you saw me too eh?

I lasted about two minutes then said. "Screw this. I've seen them before. I'll wait for the one in August."

Pretty much said the same thing too :D

Title: meteor shower thur. night
Post by: texasmom on January 04, 2008, 06:59:27 AM

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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Yup. I saw the same thing.
So.
you saw me too eh?

I lasted about two minutes then said. "Screw this. I've seen them before. I'll wait for the one in August." [/QUOTE

dang it! me too! bummer

Title: meteor shower thur. night
Post by: Cypher on January 04, 2008, 09:54:08 AM

I couldn't have watched if i wanted to. Here in wonderful sunny California we have 3 back to back storms since early yesterday.

Title: meteor shower thur. night
Post by: Maverick on January 04, 2008, 11:17:35 AM

Cloudy and raining here in Tucson, sigh.  :(

Title: meteor shower thur. night
Post by: Masherbrum on January 04, 2008, 06:21:20 PM

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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Yup. I saw the same thing.
So.
you saw me too eh?

I lasted about two minutes then said. "Screw this. I've seen them before. I'll wait for the one in August."

Dred, you are a swami aren't ya?   I mumbled the same thing in the overcast here in Michigan this AM.   :aok

Title: meteor shower thur. night
Post by: Halo on January 04, 2008, 11:06:52 PM

Having not seen anything in virtually every recent predicted skyshow, I didn't see anything this time either.  Then again, I knew better than to waste my time going outside and looking.  :p