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Title: Perseid Meteor Shower Post by: dystopia on August 12, 2009, 07:49:32 PM Anyone viewing?
Title: Re: Perseid Meteor Shower Post by: gleek on August 12, 2009, 07:57:11 PM No. It's too bright out.
Title: Re: Perseid Meteor Shower Post by: stroh on August 12, 2009, 08:15:41 PM No. It's too bright out. LOL Califo ni a! FTW. When I was in high school, there was a girl named Sarah Persad. Mmmm Muy Caliente`. Title: Re: Perseid Meteor Shower Post by: gleek on August 12, 2009, 08:21:02 PM No. It's too bright out. LOL Califo ni a! FTW. When I was in high school, there was a girl named Sarah Persad. Mmmm Muy Caliente`. (http://www.facebook.com/profile/pic.php?uid=AAAAAQAQrmkZpvdRkHKC8ZZMo8PewQAAAApCKz5xtYA-hFHO9PwASHv5) Title: Re: Perseid Meteor Shower Post by: stroh on August 12, 2009, 08:23:22 PM No. It's too bright out. LOL Califo ni a! FTW. When I was in high school, there was a girl named Sarah Persad. Mmmm Muy Caliente`. (http://www.facebook.com/profile/pic.php?uid=AAAAAQAQrmkZpvdRkHKC8ZZMo8PewQAAAApCKz5xtYA-hFHO9PwASHv5) Wow! That's even better than I remember. Title: Re: Perseid Meteor Shower Post by: Dunk on August 12, 2009, 08:29:46 PM It rained last night, which was the peak, and it's raining again tonight. No Perseids for me this year.
So, here's a pic I took about 4 or 5 years ago: (http://members.shaw.ca/dkm.pod/perseid_b.jpg) Title: Re: Perseid Meteor Shower Post by: dystopia on August 12, 2009, 09:25:49 PM Awesome! [sm_thumbsup2]
Title: Re: Perseid Meteor Shower Post by: Blader on August 13, 2009, 10:58:14 AM Long time ago, in the summer of the Son of Sam, I was in the Olympic National Park backcountry when the earth recklessly collided with those meteors.
The show went on night after night, though it clearly built to a two or three night crescendo. Great stuff. Title: Re: Perseid Meteor Shower Post by: dystopia on August 13, 2009, 11:06:54 AM No dice last night. Overcast and too many streetlights.
Title: Re: Perseid Meteor Shower Post by: Dunk on August 13, 2009, 08:55:32 PM Long time ago, in the summer of the Son of Sam, I was in the Olympic National Park backcountry when the earth recklessly collided with those meteors. Back country dark skies and the Perseids. Good combination. The Perseid Meteor shower actually has quite a broad period of activity. I've seen them as late as the first week in September and as early as the last week in July.The show went on night after night, though it clearly built to a two or three night crescendo. Great stuff. Title: Re: Perseid Meteor Shower Post by: Blader on August 14, 2009, 07:25:43 AM Long time ago, in the summer of the Son of Sam, I was in the Olympic National Park backcountry when the earth recklessly collided with those meteors. Back country dark skies and the Perseids. Good combination. The Perseid Meteor shower actually has quite a broad period of activity. I've seen them as late as the first week in September and as early as the last week in July.The show went on night after night, though it clearly built to a two or three night crescendo. Great stuff. That's about my recollection. I was in the back country for most of the summer, but as August began, you could definitely sense a build up. The night skies were growing progressively more active. At first I thought it had to do with moving up a valley to a higher elevation area in the park center. And I do remember a couple of nights that were just absolutely spectacular compared to what had gone on before--fantastic blue and green fireballs racing across the sky. Sort of the equivalent of a grand firework display, only in that sort of subliminally muted way that nature tends to pull these things off. I was with a group, and sensing we were seeing something unique, we would lie in our sleeping bags trying to keep each other awake so as not to miss anything. It wasn't until I got back to civilization that I realized we'd witnessed an annual event. |