Here Today... Gone To Hell!

Now that I have your attention:



This morning, on my way home, I saw a spectacular blue bolide(a big ass meteor) disintegrate as went across the sky so i thought I would remind everyone that Sunday night/Monday morning the best meteor shower of the year will peak in intensity. One can't really see anything untill after midnight. The best views occur between 3-5 am, because as the Earth rotates, the foward edge is coming into the debris left by a comet Swift-Tuttle(hope that made sense). Meteor showers are best viewed without optical instruments, so the only thing one needs is a set of eyes to see one of the great spendors of the heavans. The Bad Astonomer give a good primer HERE (http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/08/09/12-things-you-need-to-watch-the-perseid-meteors-sunday-night/) on how to view this event. NASA details HERE (http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/11jul_greatperseids.htm) on how to view this event.
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u fool - that was a Transformer arriving :hihi:

Transformer? Thats absurd. It's obviously the last son of Krypton.

What ever it was, it was fuckin kewl.

It was really a secret government test of a new spy plane . That is based on UFO technology.

Good one!  It made me look!!  "Sex?  What about sex?"   :hihi:

Anyway, thanks for the info!

I cant wait.. I made camping reservations months in advance, hope its a clear night!  :smoking:

It is a new moon this year :beer:. I saw the "great storm" of 89: ok: : ok:

I had a Delta Aquariid disentegrate across my FOV in a pair of 10x50s a couple of years ago. :drool: :drool: :drool:

I'll be looking up tonight.  ( since SEX is out of the question this evening)

ya I seen some great ones last night myself, and tonight should be even better...... overcast now but according to CBC the skys will be clear around 10pm onward tonight, hopefully a good show

You mean the Ferengi?

Yeah, definitely best viewed without optical instruments. Ugly bastards.

On a related note, I'll be watching for falling rocks tonight as well. They're kool.

I won't look for some equivocal meaning in that, and just hope you have a good view.

clear skies dude

I saw one last night and three so far tonight...one was very large and looked very decidedly blue against the night sky! ;D

I have my 80mm apo and 0.3m Newt out back cooling. Too, I'm going to check out some other stuff.

I've have my night vision goggles for later ... they make a shower look like a storm.

EDIT : Ok, I'm splitting Mars now. I thought I should give it up. Pretty cool though, 2 alderbarans- 2 Mars, then the Plieades

I just saw the Orion for the first time this "year". I all ways associate the new year with the arrival of Orion; maybe it is just a night shift thing, but it reminds me of rebirth/regeneration. Autumn will be here soon.

"Hello darkness my old friend (http://youtube.com/watch?v=YhdGkZ6Fngw&mode=related&search=)". It is like a friend has returned after a long journey.

Especially now ... How appropriate

Good, because there was nothing there save for a deliberate misspelling of the word, "cool." And that's hardly major.

As for the topic at hand, I glimpsed a handful. Nothing spectacular. The sky wasn't the best.

here the sky is exceptionally clear but I have only seen a few small trails unfortuantely. Since you mentioned it, I looked for Orion and was pleased to see it as well.