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Title: Meteor Shower
Post by: Meatwad on August 12, 2015, 06:01:59 PM
Anyone staying up late to watch it? Estimated up to 100 per hour
Title: Re: Meteor Shower
Post by: APDrone on August 12, 2015, 06:48:58 PM
Thanks for the reminder!

May have to venture out tonight..

Title: Re: Meteor Shower
Post by: zack1234 on August 13, 2015, 05:54:47 AM
Took out bottle of red wine and woke up not seeing a thing :old:
Title: Re: Meteor Shower
Post by: Meatwad on August 13, 2015, 07:25:18 AM
Didnt see anything here either
Title: Re: Meteor Shower
Post by: Maverick on August 13, 2015, 07:53:49 AM
Walked the dog about 10 PM ET and saw a single meteor here in SE TN. Wasn't even going to think about staying up any later.
Title: Re: Meteor Shower
Post by: ink on August 13, 2015, 10:19:07 AM
laid out on the ground for a good hour and watched...pretty awesome....

saw something that was not a meteor or a satellite.... :headscratch:

we call satellite's "movers" just a dull light that moves across the sky very fast...

this thing was stationary and started moving towards Polaris....it then became bright... as it moved further along its path....it became brighter...to a point of being brighter then any of the stars....then just vanished.... 



if my dreams come true....we are f'ed....
Title: Re: Meteor Shower
Post by: Drano on August 13, 2015, 11:30:36 AM
Might have been the space station. It's pretty big and bright. I have an app on my phone that tells me where it's at all the time and when and in which part of the sky it'll be visible and for how long. And it's dead on too. Orbit put it right over my part of the world a few nights least week.

It also describes what's called "iridium flares" that I think are other smaller sattelites. Same thing with them. You see them and they get brighter, brighter, brighter, gone.

You'll generally only see them for a few hours after sunset and a few hours before sunrise. Reason being later at night they're passing behind the earth's shadow.

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Title: Re: Meteor Shower
Post by: Drano on August 13, 2015, 11:35:39 AM
Just looked and the app sez that on Friday night it'll be visible from 21:56 at 10° elev in the NW to 21:59 at 34° elev in the NNE. Duration of 3:01. You're in NE so give a look if ya remember.

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Title: Re: Meteor Shower
Post by: ink on August 13, 2015, 11:44:47 AM
Might have been the space station. It's pretty big and bright. I have an app on my phone that tells me where it's at all the time and when and in which part of the sky it'll be visible and for how long. And it's dead on too. Orbit put it right over my part of the world a few nights least week.

It also describes what's called "iridium flares" that I think are other smaller sattelites. Same thing with them. You see them and they get brighter, brighter, brighter, gone.

You'll generally only see them for a few hours after sunset and a few hours before sunrise. Reason being later at night they're passing behind the earth's shadow.

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never even thought of the space station  :o
Title: Re: Meteor Shower
Post by: craz07 on August 13, 2015, 11:46:40 AM
you're going to hell ink
Title: Re: Meteor Shower
Post by: ink on August 13, 2015, 12:03:38 PM
you're going to hell ink


no way :eek:


I will be free to walk on the sun if I so choose  :rock
Title: Re: Meteor Shower
Post by: Zoney on August 13, 2015, 12:34:56 PM

no way :eek:


I will be free to walk on the sun if I so choose  :rock

Anyone can walk on the sun, you just have go there at night.
Title: Re: Meteor Shower
Post by: ink on August 13, 2015, 12:55:57 PM
Anyone can walk on the sun, you just have go there at night.


 :rofl :rofl :aok
Title: Re: Meteor Shower
Post by: zack1234 on August 13, 2015, 06:16:41 PM
laid out on the ground for a good hour and watched...pretty awesome....

saw something that was not a meteor or a satellite.... :headscratch:

we call satellite's "movers" just a dull light that moves across the sky very fast...

this thing was stationary and started moving towards Polaris....it then became bright... as it moved further along its path....it became brighter...to a point of being brighter then any of the stars....then just vanished.... 



if my dreams come true....we are f'ed....

You ever been probed Ink? :)