Perseid Meteor Shower

[m1.carson]

Hi,

I was out on the hour every hour last night, [Sunday] didn't see one, but if they last only seconds I'm not surprised.

Bracknell area.

Max.

[Ambriel]

I popped out around 10pm and the sky was cloudy but with large clear patches. Still fairly light though so went back indoors. Came back out around midnight to solid cloud cover

Ah well, the Leonids will be along in a while...

[Bambi]

Originally Posted by Ambriel

I popped out around 10pm and the sky was cloudy but with large clear patches. Still fairly light though so went back indoors. Came back out around midnight to solid cloud cover

I was going to go down to the beach to watch, but it was too cloudy here as well . I did have a look from the garden; it was only possibly to see a few stars, but even they were coverd by cloud fifteen minutes later and the cloud didn't shift untill this morning.

[Carole McC]

Steve,

Your bat might well have been a Horseshoe bat. Beautiful (beauty being in the eye of the beholder!) large creatures.

Just out of interest, I shall count the number of satellites that I see tonight. I saw lots last night (and most evenings, of-course).

I do hope that the sky tonight is as clear as it was last night. I might then take out my garden recliner. My brother and I (he was a keen astronomer), would very often lie outside on deckchairs, covered with rugs, watching the heavens.

[Billy Wobble Dagger]

Originally Posted by Madelinew

Question tho

I saw a few pin pricks of light moving slowly across the entire sky without fading. Are these satellites?

Yes, the satellites move a constant speed and from what I have seen are a steady pin prick of light.

The other light I saw last night was much brighter and larger, giving it the impression that it was closer than the others. I'm only guessing this was the shuttle. It certainly wasn't an aircraft, although we saw and heard plenty of those.

Bwd

[Dan Salter]

In reply to madeline and billywobble...

Billy...although indeed the space shuttle is currently docked there it was the International Space station you saw...(ISS) it made a pass from west to east at exactly 10:03 and was right overhead by 10:06 before eventually fading to orange then dissapearing...

Madeline...What you describe was almost certainly satellites...they are a lot more common than people realise...infact if you look at the stars for any sort of length of time on any clear day your likely to eventually pick one out...moving gradually but fairly fast ...and normally fading out ( this is when the moon ( or the sun, i cant remember which) is no longer reflecting on the shiny surface of the craft)..so they are not electric lights like on a plane...if your unsure if its a plane or a satellite the plane will have flashing lights somewhere on it. and the ISS last night was like a much brighter, larger star sized satellite...brighter than most stars...it flew from west to east as i mentioned...

I believe it may be passing again tonight?,...ill try and post the time when i find out.

[Dan Salter]

See this link for the timetable...i think its going west to south tonight?

Esa

[Billy Wobble Dagger]

Originally Posted by Dan Salter

See this link for the timetable...i think its going west to south tonight?

Esa

Thanks Dan, I think I'm hooked on this star gazing. I don't thinks there is any chance of seeing anything tonight. It's back to wet and windy for the next few days.

BWD

[clover green]

Am so disappointed as I didn't see very much at all. With there being so much cloud about, it was hard to make anything out, though I did see some very faint flickers/traces,etc,? But I can't be sure I witnessed the p m shower! Will try again tonight. Fingers crossed (again).

[amplexus]

I feel very lucky indeed as I went out last night about 11 pm - 12.15 am and saw at least 50 shooting stars. The sky was clear and the Milky Way pretty clear to. They were in all directions, some very "short" others brilliant with long bright tails.......I am also lucky that I live in an area with little light polution. I wish you could have seen them, there were certainly plenty for everyone to wish on!

[Jez]

Hmm i went out with my neighbour last night i thought he'd like to experience the shooters. Bit sad as shooters go i thought. They happened so quickly. I'm sure my nice neighbour thought i was making my sightings up as he couldn't see diddly squat! Oh well. Have seen far better maybe next time.

[Duke of York]

Originally Posted by Dan Salter

See this link for the timetable...i think its going west to south tonight?

Esa

Thanks for the link Dan

I've just been on and I can actually put our village in to show what time we can see the ISS. Cool

[Carl]

Originally Posted by Mr Mag00

just popped out to watch and saw the shuttle/iss pass over head too wow!!
next pass about 1138pm in the poole area

Was the same here in Oxford 22:06 was first pass was really bright 11:38 second was a lot less brighter.
Looking again tonight.
i found the times of it on Welcome to Heavens-Above!

[Jolanta Zofia Nowak]

Does anyone know exactly where in Perseus the radiant is?

[Mr Mag00]

fool!!
i should have put up a link, nice esa link though, thanks

[Dan Salter]

I watched the ISS pass again tonight at 10:26 - 10:29...flew west to south which is exactly what the link said

[wilddawn]

Anyone know how many more nights we have to view them? Went out in the back tonight with my oh and the kids but we didn't see any, just too much cloud

[newfie2007]

i likes watching Meteor Showers to but its hard to see when you lives in a town full of lights a round you.

[James M]

Originally Posted by Digiscoper62

Thought I would go out for a keek, pouring rain again

Ayrshire is where I am atm, and it was pouring here too, I did manage to see a faint one through a break in the cloud but that was it.

[Jay77]

Cloudy again last night in the north-east so couldn't see any meteors (? are there still any to see) BUT it was clearish in the west so I did see the ISS - thanks Dan for the link.

[Colin Pumfrett]

Had a look last night, saw 1 shooting star but something else startled me, a very odd flash in the sky, like a small explosion, only lasting a split second, never seen anything like it, very clear sky with no moving objects, except for the shooting star, very unusual. time 12.45 and just to the left of Ursa Major.

[Adam Cheeseman]

Call that a shower, it was more like a drip!

[wilddawn]

We saw one more tonight, kids are really dissapointed because they didn't see any