Author Topic: Perseid Meteor Shower 2016 (Read 4797 times)

LowRyter · « **on:** August 10, 2016, 03:15:50 PM »

Tomorrow and Friday.

It's supposed to be a good year for viewing.

rodekyll · « **Reply #1 on:** August 10, 2016, 03:21:09 PM »

Yup.

.75" rain predicted over the next two nights. I'm gonna miss it.

LowRyter · « **Reply #2 on:** August 10, 2016, 03:48:35 PM »

look north, Best time 11 pm to 5 am. Moon is 75% and sets about 4 am.

LowRyter · « **Reply #3 on:** August 10, 2016, 05:46:44 PM »

anyone else?

rodekyll · « **Reply #4 on:** August 10, 2016, 06:18:08 PM »

At 80/hr it won't be a flash in the pan, so to speak. It should be spectacular. Our forecast got upgraded -- to 1.25" rain.

LowRyter · « **Reply #5 on:** August 10, 2016, 08:15:41 PM »

I remember maybe 15-20 years ago and it was just spectacular. Shooting stars everywhere.

I look up all the years since and am still hoping again.

This is supposed to be another good year. I am going to head out of town, 20 miles or so north. Cigar and coke.

Nic in Western NYS · « **Reply #6 on:** August 11, 2016, 06:12:07 AM »

Before dawn always seems to work better than before midnight - worth getting up early, at least on Friday. The key is patience - and that requires neck comfort. Chez lounge chair (remember them?) and a dark, unobstructed predawn sky is the ticket for me. The other thing is that with the Perseids, most of the meteors are not spectacular fireballs, so don't expect too much. To be sure the meteor is from the shower, trace it back from the direction it came from - where the traces from shower meteors converge is the radiant. A few meteors will be unassociated with the shower and won't trace back to that radiant point.

rodekyll · « **Reply #7 on:** August 11, 2016, 02:53:45 PM »

Anybody see anything yet?

Lannis · « **Reply #8 on:** August 11, 2016, 03:54:52 PM »

Quote from: rodekyll on August 11, 2016, 02:53:45 PM

Anybody see anything yet?

Fay's gone to take a nap so's we can get up about 0300 and watch. I'll set out a couple of comfy chairs and have blankets and DEET available before I go to bed tonight, and we'll hope for no clouds. Moon will be set by then and no trace of dawn ....

Lannis

LowRyter · « **Reply #9 on:** August 11, 2016, 05:06:30 PM »

I am taking off about 11 pm. Probably back home by 1:30. I am not an early riser.

rodekyll · « **Reply #10 on:** August 11, 2016, 05:22:27 PM »

We can drive today with the headlights off -- some sunlight getting through the clouds. Maybe it will clear . . . .

LowRyter · « **Reply #11 on:** August 12, 2016, 12:16:45 AM »

no luck for me. Too much ambient light, haze, light clouds and distant lightening. even the big dipper was dim.

rodekyll · « **Reply #12 on:** August 12, 2016, 12:34:17 AM »

I looked up and next thing I knew a passing lifeguard was burping me on account of I was drowning. I wouldn't have minded, but he wasn't he "Baywatch" kind.

Kev m · « **Reply #13 on:** August 12, 2016, 01:07:52 AM »

We woke up baby girl (Fi) and took her out to the dock. Clouds were just light/patchy enough that we saw a few great meteors!

Lannis · « **Reply #14 on:** August 12, 2016, 03:02:25 AM »

Fay and I just came back in after an hour of meteor-watching. The sky was as clear as it ever gets on a humid August night in Virginia.

We saw 104 meteors total - all but 3 of them were Perseids, although one of the three non-Perseids was really bright.

Several of the Perseids were very bright, their track covered about 20 degrees and they left an ionization trail that you could look away from and look back and still see it.

Altogether worth the loss of sleep. As a side note, we could see "heat lightning", so called, on the northwest horizon. A quick check of the NOAA radar shows that there is a little storm west of Charleston, West Virginia, about 200 miles as the photon flies from here .....

Lannis

Nic in Western NYS · « **Reply #15 on:** August 12, 2016, 04:27:45 AM »

Cloudy here in Asheville NC. Saw 3 through breaks in the clouds, also a few flashes of distant lightning. Radar says the closest thunderstorm is in WV, so likely from the same system Lannis mentioned.

mtiberio · « **Reply #16 on:** August 12, 2016, 06:31:53 AM »

DC area, went out at 4am, saw a few faint ones, and one good meteor, called it good and went back to bed.

Gliderjohn · « **Reply #17 on:** August 12, 2016, 06:39:33 AM »

Raining here so no see.

GliderJohn

Old Jock · « **Reply #18 on:** August 12, 2016, 07:50:52 AM »

On our way home last night around 22:00 UK time, it was raining and 10/10 clouds sky completely obscured and we were only minutes away from the house

What at first I thought was summer lightening, was turning the clouds a blue/green colour and backlighting them sufficiently that you could easily pick up cloud detail.

No sound at all and I'm in a city that is well lit................ ......lots of light pollution

It must have been some show above

yogidozer · « **Reply #19 on:** August 12, 2016, 09:11:34 AM »

tried, thunder, lightning, and clouds here all night

TBShorty · « **Reply #20 on:** August 12, 2016, 09:41:05 AM »

Absolutely clear skies this morning in Salt Lake City. Went outside a 5 am for work and stopped to gaze up it for a few minutes, very good show this time.

Joliet Jim · « **Reply #21 on:** August 12, 2016, 07:23:38 PM »

If there's a meteor shower the weather will be crap wherever i am, I think I've only seen one in the last 10 years.

Yukonica · « **Reply #22 on:** August 13, 2016, 04:56:08 AM »

I was all set-up for time-lapse images but thin clouds covered the sky. No go. Very disappointed.
There was, however, a cool aurora that backlight everything. Didn't bother with any images of green clouds.

Nic in Western NYS · « **Reply #23 on:** August 13, 2016, 06:06:30 AM »

Quote from: Yukonica on August 13, 2016, 04:56:08 AM

I was all set-up for time-lapse images but thin clouds covered the sky. No go. Very disappointed.
There was, however, a cool aurora that backlight everything. Didn't bother with any images of green clouds.

Wow - that would have been very cool - pics of the Perseids with the aurora glow going on

rodekyll · « **Reply #24 on:** August 13, 2016, 04:25:33 PM »

Rained all night.

But here are some gratuitous green clouds for y'all:

It's a "staged" shot in that I got bored and shined an LED flashlight on the foreground. The auroras were bright enough to do the rest.

Nic in Western NYS · « **Reply #25 on:** August 13, 2016, 04:35:05 PM »

Quote from: rodekyll on August 13, 2016, 04:25:33 PM

Rained all night.

But here are some gratuitous green clouds for y'all:

It's a "staged" shot in that I got bored and shined an LED flashlight on the foreground. The auroras were bright enough to do the rest.

Yeah! Borealis rules!

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