Possible major new meteor Shower, Friday May 23-24.

[dennilfloss]

Info: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astr...new_meteor_shower_from_comet_209p_linear.html

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Are we suppose to bring a gift for the newborn?

 

[spidey07]

Pretty stoked about this one. Slow burners. Going to try and take pictures.

 

[spidey07]

Wtf. This is going to be a nice shower. Maybe a storm with perfect conditions.

 

[zanejohnson]

Are we suppose to bring a gift for the newborn?

incense peppermints and heroin bags

 

[fjmeat]

cool thanks for sharing! i'll be at the lake on the upper deck of the dock, drinkin a beer and staring up to the sky!

 

[Red Squirrel]

Cloudy, as usual.

 

[BUTCH1]

Got this from the linked sight, some dude set up an antenna system in New Mexico and you can HEAR meteorites as they come into the atmosphere, I guess they deflect TV signals for a moment making a "ping" each time, check it out, kinda cool.,http://spaceweatherradio.com/

 

[bunker]

I just sat outside for half an hour and saw a whopping one shooting star.

 

[ISAslot]

none for me
got some mosquito bites though

 

[bunker]

Went back out for a while and saw 2 really good ones and about 5-6 faint ones.

 

[dennilfloss]

I just sat outside for half an hour and saw a whopping one shooting star.

Better than me. Goose eggs so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V3CfD8TPac

 

[spidey07]

Saw 2 over the course of a hour at 0400. Not much of a shower.

 

[stargazr]

I was out for over two hours and didn't see a thing, before it clouded up around 1AM CDT.

 

[dennilfloss]

Clouds parted in Ottawa, so all I had to deal with was the downtown light pollution but I could see Ursa Major's main stars clearly, for example. In the end I tried on four occasions, each time 15-20 minutes long and spaced 1/2 hour apart, beginning at 2am, and saw nothing. To quote Dean Wormer: "Zero point zero..."

 

[MtnMan]

Nothing, nada.....

Another friend with a open sky and far enough out that he can actually see the Milky Way, same results after watching for 2 hours, zilch, zero.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Now I don't feel so bad that it rained all night here.

 

[Spacehead]

I just came back in after being out about 40 minutes. The total count was:

Meteors - 2
Satellites - 8
ISS - 1

Both were fairly bright & short duration. Can't say positively both were part of the shower or just sporadic.

Friday night was completely clouded over for me so it was nice to get out at least a little bit.

 

[John Connor]

It rained.

 

[Spacehead]

Saw 3 more tonight. These were definitely not part of the Camelopardalis shower but may have been from the Eta Aquariids. These 3 were pretty faint... if they hadn't streaked right where i happened to be looking i wouldn't of seen them.

 

[John Connor]

When you wish upon a star...