Meteor Showers tonight

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Tonight is the peak annual Perseid Meteor Shower that occurs when Earth passes through the orbit of the Swift-Tuttle comet, which circles round every 230 years or so. This year's shower is supposed to be particularly heavy. If you're in North America, you've missed the first shower already, and while those were the brightest they were also the least frequent. However, if you go back out between 0000 and 0400 you should see the main shower with about 40-80 meteors per hour.


I wanted to go out to Libby Flats to see it, but my parents didn't like the idea of driving all the way out past Centennial into the mountains in the middle of the night. The only other places are the roof of my house and Prexy's Pasture at the University of Wyoming. Unfortunately there's a frikkin big tree blocking the northeastern sector of the sky from my roof, where the Perseids emanate from. Prexy's offers a better, more open view, however the University has got security floodlights all over the place, it'll be impossible to see anything with all that light.

Ah, maybe next year.

Unfortunately, where I'm at, there's too much cloud cover to see anything. The bright moonlight and light pollution don't help, either. I watched it a couple of years ago, but I had to drive out of state to find someplace dark enough to watch them.

Supposedly the Leonids this coming November is going to be a good show, with about twice as many meteors (estimated) as previous years and a new moon so the skies should be nice and dark (assuming I can get away from the light pollution).

I indeed hope it will not be cloudy over here, though looking out of my window, I'm afraid I can lose all hope :S ah well, it would be nice te have those shooting stars the night before my birthday, but not essential, I hope

There's too much cloud cover and city lights in my area for me to see it. I did get to see it when I went to a week long summer camp in middle school. We actually went to a vista point not too far from the camp itself to watch it.

I've had a good view once when I was at the beach on the east coast of U.S. and it was a very clear night. It was wonderful. I would love to see it out West, on a family camping trip as a child I remember what an amazing view of the night sky could be had.

My God! It's full of stars!

ruveyn

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Do you mean that it's happening NOW, where you are?
You're lucky to see that in real.

I've watched these every summer for years, weather and local light pollution permitting. So far this year I've been clouded out or blinded by a full moon. Too bad since this year's is looking quite impressive from the photos I've seen.

I watched them for a while a few nights ago, I saw a lot of flashs but one nice one made a long bright line along the sky.

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I went with some people (all on the spectrum) down to the Ramon Crater to see it. It happened between sunset and moonrise.
I saw 3-4 big ones and 1-2 small ones. The big ones left a long streak in the sky. They were beautiful! I also saw the stars and was amazed by them too. I know that you can see stars every night, but this is the second time I've seen so many stars in the sky.
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