Meteor shower tonight.

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Strong Meteor Shower Expected Tonight - Yahoo! News

The annual Perseid meteor shower is expected to put on a good show this week for those willing to get up in the wee hours of the morning and wait patiently for the shooting stars.


In North America, the best time to watch will be between midnight to 5 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 12, but late Tuesday night and also Wednesday night could prove fruitful, weather permitting



I am not working and have trouble sleeping so I will be looking.

 

[Blade Runner]

I think I'll stay up a bit longer and have a look-see....

 

[canibus]

i'll do my best to remember. hope there's enough for all my wishes

 

[thomas91169]

saw 5 on a 10min drive earlier with the top down, its 11:15pm here now and that was about 20min ago.

 

[Mr. Mach-ete]

Eight is the most I've seen in about an hour's time.

 

[semperfimrn1]

wasnt able to see anything lol

 

[lancec2c30]

Weak! It's clouded over and raining.

 

[Blade Runner]

Nothing here so far.....

 

[Sapperstang]

Starting raining last night. Got up this morning at 5 and still cloudy.

 

[moarboost]

It will be really heavy Thursday in the wee-hours of the morning.

 

[James Snover]

I saw two this morning around 5:45 in Houston, Texas.

Jim Snover

 

[Double"O"]

too cloudy last night...hopefully tonight is nice and clear

 

[Nickyoobatz]

I only saw one last night.

 

[HYBRED]

Too many trees and too much light pollution.

 

[Red94SVT]

saw 5 on a 10min drive earlier with the top down, its 11:15pm here now and that was about 20min ago.

same here saw 3 at about 10:45-11:15 and that was through all the damn smoke...

 

[Jefe]

I missed it but:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZanXpEFpFI"]YouTube - D90 Time Lapse: Meteor Shower Night Sky in Frazier Park, CA[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqn4SwglCBg"]YouTube - Perseid Meteor Shower 2009 by John Chumack (slower version)[/ame]

 

[whiplash306]

Saw 18 in 30 minutes...a few real nice ones as well....sweet smoke trails! Stayed out till a hair past 0200 Central time. Would've stayed longer, but the dang moon really started to bleach the sky. Venus is awesome lately too! Gah, I love this amateur naked-eye astronomy stuff. Very humbling...!

 

[03DOHC]

Saw 18 in 30 minutes...a few real nice ones as well....sweet smoke trails! Stayed out till a hair past 0200 Central time. Would've stayed longer, but the dang moon really started to bleach the sky. Venus is awesome lately too! Gah, I love this amateur naked-eye astronomy stuff. Very humbling...!

If you're talking about the really bright planet to the south that should be Jupiter. If you have a pair of binoculars you can even see its moons pretty easily.

 

[03DOHC]

I just came in and saw around 5 with one really bright one. We were fogged in last night so I couldn't see squat.

 

[CobraBob]

Sky was too cloudy so you couldn't see a thing. Thanks for posting the videos, though. At least I got to see what I missed. LOL!