Perseids meteor shower...

... anyone else going to spend a little time out in the middle of the night tonight watching the show?

We caught some of the precursors last night, including a few that created streaks in the sky that stretched from one horizon halfway to the other. Gorgeous stuff!

Show gets going pretty steady around 11 p.m., with 4 a.m. listed as the peak time. (All times local...)

If you've got the energy, treat yourself to a show tonight...


http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2...atperseids.htm

 

I saw this online today. I figured I'd head outside around 1 or 2 a.m. No streetlights in my neighborhood, so I should be good to go. And we have a hammock.

 

The sky will fall.
The earth will move.
I love me some Perseids.

 

Is it appropriate, when a woman asks you to see the Perseids, to tell your friends you went to her house for a shower? Just checking...

 

Won't be able to see it.

The Leafs daily fireworks extravaganza for their '67 Cup win blocks out everything in the Toronto sky.

 

You guys would only see about 70 percent as many meteors, anyway...

 

Partly cloudy here. Just saw the Shuttle/ISS make a brief pass across the northeast sky.

 

The pisser about this is HC & I are going away on holidays tomorrow to a town on Lake Huron where we could have seen these showers perfectly tonight.

 

Still should be a decent show tomorrow night. The meteors don't turn off and on like a light switch.

 

That's a bad planning session, right there.

 

We only say holiday when it's a holiday, like Christmas and Happy Divine Brown day.