Are you going to watch the Leonid meteor storm this year?

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: Kiyup
Since most of the LAN/meetup threads are unstickied, why not sticky this for 12 hours?

I PM'ed a Mod and asked for ya.

 

[Wallydraigle]

Well, my photographic supplies didn't make it in time But it's not like it really mattered anyway since it's cloudy:disgust: I'll slip out later just to see what there is to see, but I'm not expecting much. I still count myself lucky for getting to see last year's show. It was truly an amazing thing!

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

cloudy here....

 

[aphex]

i slept through it

 

[milagro]

Anyone have anything cool to report? I'm gonna leave in about an hour to check in out from the beach in Hawaii...hope its as dark as possible...

 

[DanTMWTMP]

MAN CLEAR NIGHT IN SD!! i saw a whole mess of em...so many and the go by sooo fast...it was tight...first time in my life...looks like training to stay up late w/ computers is well worth it...

some of em were really big...like kamehameha's......aha, someone told me it was like a saiyajin battle field

 

[brxndxn]

I just got back from looking at them for the past hour outside my apartment (gainesville, FL).. There's way too much ambient light to see most of the stars - but it was such a perfectly clear night/morning that the light didn't matter at all.

I saw literally 100's of meteors. I woke my brother and roomate up. My bro came out and saw one, said "cool", then went back to sleep.

I met a cutie neighbor looking at the meteors. Talked to her for probby a half-hour after the meteors were drowned out by the stupid sun.

BTW, I hate the sun. The sun ruins my sleep. It ruins many a party. Sun comes up too early!

 

[thomsbrain]

saw some pretty good ones here in california, but it wasn't as good as that shower last year.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: brxndxn
I just got back from looking at them for the past hour outside my apartment (gainesville, FL).. There's way too much ambient light to see most of the stars - but it was such a perfectly clear night/morning that the light didn't matter at all.

I saw literally 100's of meteors. I woke my brother and roomate up. My bro came out and saw one, said "cool", then went back to sleep.

I met a cutie neighbor looking at the meteors. Talked to her for probby a half-hour after the meteors were drowned out by the stupid sun.

BTW, I hate the sun. The sun ruins my sleep. It ruins many a party. Sun comes up too early!

You should have gone to Paines Prarie. Im usually down there every year for any showers...

 

[Evadman]

I drove out with a few buddies to the illinois / wisconson border on the other side of rockford. Fricking bum-fluck land. Just got back.

Let me tell you, I drove about 2 hours out there, and 2 hours back. 4 total hours, and spent about 1 hr watching.

I would have drove 10 hours each way to do that again. It was fricking awesome. At times, it seemed that the meteors were overlapping tim time ( more than 1 in the sky at a point ) there were just 100's and 1000's of them.

some were different colors ( tinges of green, red, and yellow stand out in my mind.

I just leaned back against my truck, and put my head on the tailgate, and looked up. I could see from horizon to horizon, along with straight up ( moon behind me, which was friggin bright ) It was totaly aweome. Some would leave streaks that would last for a second or 2 ( maybe more like 3/4 of a second, but it seemed like a while )

I took a good 200 pictures with my camera, but have only looked though a few. I just pointed the camera striaght up, and clicked till it was full, had someone copy it over to my HD on my laptop, then clicked some more. I know I caught at least 1 meteor, as I heard the beep just as I saw it in the sky, and I am 9% sure the camera was looking at it. It was a wierd one that almost came straight down at us. Kinda looked like there were 3 or 4 of them all right next to each other, kinda giving it a "ball on a chain" look. Bright, bright white.

I am dead tired now, but I promise I will post the best of them when I wake up.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: Evadman
I drove out with a few buddies to the illinois / wisconson border on the other side of rockford. Fricking bum-fluck land. Just got back.

Let me tell you, I drove about 2 hours out there, and 2 hours back. 4 total hours, and spent about 1 hr watching.

I would have drove 10 hours each way to do that again. It was fricking awesome. At times, it seemed that the meteors were overlapping tim time ( more than 1 in the sky at a point ) there were just 100's and 1000's of them.

some were different colors ( tinges of green, red, and yellow stand out in my mind.

I just leaned back against my truck, and put my head on the tailgate, and looked up. I could see from horizon to horizon, along with straight up ( moon behind me, which was friggin bright ) It was totaly aweome. Some would leave streaks that would last for a second or 2 ( maybe more like 3/4 of a second, but it seemed like a while )

I took a good 200 pictures with my camera, but have only looked though a few. I just pointed the camera striaght up, and clicked till it was full, had someone copy it over to my HD on my laptop, then clicked some more. I know I caught at least 1 meteor, as I heard the beep just as I saw it in the sky, and I am 9% sure the camera was looking at it. It was a wierd one that almost came straight down at us. Kinda looked like there were 3 or 4 of them all right next to each other, kinda giving it a "ball on a chain" look. Bright, bright white.

I am dead tired now, but I promise I will post the best of them when I wake up.

Damn Holland. It was cloudy all night here.

 

[ShizNitz]

couldn't see anything.