#4156923 - 08/13/15 02:22 AM
quit posting here and go outside - Persied meteor shower peaks tonight
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#4157126 - 08/13/15 04:39 PM
Re: quit posting here and go outside - Persied meteor shower peaks tonight
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I brought my son out at 11:30 but was too light polluted to see more than a few. He got tired and wanted to head back instead of heading out of town. Will try again tonight, with the new moon the Milky Way and the meteors should be plentiful!
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#4157208 - 08/13/15 09:22 PM
Re: quit posting here and go outside - Persied meteor shower peaks tonight
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#4157488 - 08/14/15 02:43 PM
Re: quit posting here and go outside - Persied meteor shower peaks tonight
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On the peak night, in the course of an hour I saw 4 to 6 streaks, and about 20 bright flashes from falls I could not see from my window.
Last night I checked again, no bright flashes at all, and 3 or 4 streaks.
I was not seeing any strong colors as I seem to recall in the past. But my eyes were perhaps not well adapted given the conditions.
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#4157513 - 08/14/15 04:31 PM
Re: quit posting here and go outside - Persied meteor shower peaks tonight
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Saw em last night out over the ocean during my first night flight in the strike eagle and with NVGs, was pretty damn spectacular You know... I think I really hate you. Like a lot. And know that Im casting an horrible curse upon you. Thou shall never have paired socks again. Ever. Always mismatched. There. *Sticks tongue out*
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#4157609 - 08/14/15 08:36 PM
Re: quit posting here and go outside - Persied meteor shower peaks tonight
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Hey! That's cheating! You can't use Elite Dangerous screenshots and call them "your photos".
Pffft.
J/k. Awesome shot. Nearly as good as the sky I admired in the desert.
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"It takes forever +/- 2 weeks for the A-10 to get anywhere significant..." Ice
"Ha! If it gets him on the deck its a start!" MigBuster
"What people like and what critics praise are rarely the same thing. 'Critic' is just another one of those unnecessary, overpaid, parasitic jobs that the human race has churned out so that clever slackers won't have to actually get a real job and possibly soil their hands." Sauron
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#4157635 - 08/14/15 10:39 PM
Re: quit posting here and go outside - Persied meteor shower peaks tonight
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Klar... Ah, what a view that must've been... From a pretty special chair!
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#4157684 - 08/15/15 12:36 AM
Re: quit posting here and go outside - Persied meteor shower peaks tonight
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went up to the Mountains in NH and saw a bunch, nice long streaks that even lasted after the meteor vanished. My son had lots of fun even though he was tired. Clear crisp skies gives us photos like this, can't wait to see if I got any meteors in my shots from last night. In Shanghai we can see the moon on a cloudless night, and that's about it.
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#4157734 - 08/15/15 04:23 AM
Re: quit posting here and go outside - Persied meteor shower peaks tonight
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Luckily, where I live in Connecticut you have a pretty good view of the Milky Way on a nice clear night. Surprisingly little light pollution on my hill. Dragged my wife out and pretty soon we saw a nice meteor with a glowing tail. She got excited and we took my easily bored five year old son outside. Within a few minutes we saw a rather slow-moving orange meteor with a long trail make its way across the sky, declared victory, and headed inside with everyone happy with the experience.
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#4158568 - 08/17/15 08:34 PM
Re: quit posting here and go outside - Persied meteor shower peaks tonight
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Hey! That's cheating! You can't use Elite Dangerous screenshots and call them "your photos".
Pffft.
J/k. Awesome shot. Nearly as good as the sky I admired in the desert. lol, thanks when I went to AZ in April it was during a quarter moon and it wasn't as easy to see. When we go back next year it's planned around a new moon. Can't wait.
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#4158575 - 08/17/15 08:44 PM
Re: quit posting here and go outside - Persied meteor shower peaks tonight
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Hey! That's cheating! You can't use Elite Dangerous screenshots and call them "your photos".
Pffft.
J/k. Awesome shot. Nearly as good as the sky I admired in the desert. lol, thanks when I went to AZ in April it was during a quarter moon and it wasn't as easy to see. When we go back next year it's planned around a new moon. Can't wait. I really can understand. Take some more long exposures!
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"It takes forever +/- 2 weeks for the A-10 to get anywhere significant..." Ice
"Ha! If it gets him on the deck its a start!" MigBuster
"What people like and what critics praise are rarely the same thing. 'Critic' is just another one of those unnecessary, overpaid, parasitic jobs that the human race has churned out so that clever slackers won't have to actually get a real job and possibly soil their hands." Sauron
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