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 Post subject: Meteor Shower tonight
PostPosted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 6:02 pm 
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anyone going to watch it?
Any advice for photographing it?


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 Post subject: Re: Meteor Shower tonight
PostPosted: Thu Aug 13, 2015 12:41 am 
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Uhmmm...where? There is actually a clear sky over San Francisco tonight. I'll step outside.


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PostPosted: Thu Aug 13, 2015 1:07 am 
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Barbra Voltaire wrote:
Uhmmm...where? There is actually a clear sky over San Francisco tonight. I'll step outside.


Just back from watching for about 1.5 hours - saw about a dozen really nice ones, several that left trails. It is supposed to peak at 2am EST here, and mostly come from the northeast.


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we also just back. we saw few very bright ones

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Less Meteors stream of Perseids in our area. But yes, nice.
The next spectacular celestial event will be seen in December - the current shooting stars of the Geminids. These are probably even more intense than the Perseids.

By the way, cause of the phenomenon are debris of the comet 109P / Swift-Tuttle, flying on its trajectory around the sun.

In the news they told less of the meteor shower will be seen the next days (nights :wink: ) also.


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Location: The frozen north prairie :-/
And we had to have cloud cover last night :evil: .

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My neck is still a bit sore from craning, but it was very much worth it. We all got to see a few really nice ones.

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to much light pollution in our back yard. :?

may have to drive out of town tonight.


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