Lie flat on your back in the dark and think of...Vic?...
- 9 August 2013 11:48240238Perseids promise spectacular shooting star show...
"Stargazers will be treated to a spectacular fireball show early next week when Earth hits a belt of comet debris known as the Perseids, astronomers say.
The annual Perseid meteor shower, dubbed "the tears of St Lawrence" in honour of a martyred Christian saint, should peak in the wee hours of Monday and Tuesday with between 60 and 100 shooting stars per hour..."
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/perseids-promise-spectacular-shooting-star-show-013727528.html#3JfaChWIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 9 August 2013 13:50240259Thank you for telling me that yes I am now all set up ,I had to get help with doing that and a t
hank you to the club members who done it for me,I was out there last night but it was not a good night,one night last week I was all setup and waiting in my bunker with good music in the back ground and I fell asleep but I love it out there .All are wecome to join me I have tea etc all readly ,but please no talk about councils. - 12 August 2013 09:41240462
- 12 August 2013 10:45240464If the weather was like last night it will be very good I am ready my telescope is already set up but I hope to see a better sky then we have at this time hot tea and can of beans are at the ready anyone can join me just let me know but I have six cans of beans and also mess tins just like we had years ago in the army and s/fuel stoves.
- 12 August 2013 11:12240467I am sure we are all for a little comfort and sustenance, but a telescope should not be necessary. With a clear sky the 60 to 100 'shooting-stars' per hour should make a continuous and broad spectacle.
Good luck for you and your group tonight Victor.Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 12 August 2013 18:10240479Manged to see around 7 in an hour at around 10.15 last night hoping for good display tonight although this cloud cover is rather worrying
- 12 August 2013 18:2524048110pm partly cloudy, 11,12 clear, so 'they' say...
http://uk.weather.com/weather/hourByHour-UKXX0042:1:UKIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 12 August 2013 18:49240482"..."The best thing for star gazers to do is obviously to get away from any sources of light in big cities."
The Perseid meteor shower is an annual event, but the Royal Astronomical Society believes prospects for this year's showing are particularly good and could mean up to 60 shooting stars an hour in the UK.
Stargazers will need only their own eyes to enjoy the natural occurrence, which is a result of material falling from the tail of Comet Swift-Tuttle, which last passed near the Earth in 1992.
"Comet Swift-Tuttle won't be visiting our neck of the woods again until the year 2125, but every year we get this beautiful reminder as the Earth ploughs through the debris it leaves in its orbit," said Professor Alan Fitzsimmons of Queen's University Belfast.
"Every meteor is a speck of comet dust vaporising as it enters our atmosphere at 36 miles per second. What a glorious way to go."...
...People may also get a glimpse of larger "fireballs", according to Brendan Owens, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.
He said the Earth would pass through the comet's trail like a snowplough, with material of different sizes being trapped by the planet's gravity. The larger material may fall to earth as meteorites.
"If people are extremely lucky, we can see some fireballs, which are large chunks that ... don't completely burn up," he said.
"Sometimes it ends up with meteorites. There is a possibility of meteorite impact but it is very small."..."
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/aug/12/clear-skies-predicted-perseid-meteorIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 12 August 2013 21:42240499I am allset up now out there not a clear night yet saw one star but even that is now gone but we wait and see it could be a very long night.
- 13 August 2013 00:55240510Its a very clear sky been out there with my mate for the pass two hrs or more only seen about ten going over head +two foxs playing in the rd outside great to see them doing that,will give it about two hrs more then I am off to bed.
- 13 August 2013 14:05240570well not many came over where I live it all went dead after about 0130hrs I stay out till 0230hrs but then came in,as I said we only saw about doz of them and such a clear night to. I have been told most of it could been seen the otherside of London never mind always the next time but hoping soon to get a good moon again that is missing at this time.Thank you.
- 13 August 2013 14:10240572So Vic, that's a dozen or so wishes wished? Yes, they will be here again next year. [Overcast in London last night. ]Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
- 13 August 2013 20:29240617I have been told more tonight, sky is not good at this time but might stay up and see if it get better, looking at the sky at night is great seeing all the stars etc just shows us how small the real world is just one in a million or more.