Heads up! Perseid Meteor shower

[Teepee]

The annual Perseid meteor shower is forecast to peak this Sunday morning before sunrise.

The moon, venus and Jupiter will align too, worth a gaze if the skies permit.

Details here; http://www.spaceweather.com/

 

[martsim73]

Thanks for the info here Teepee. Excellent! I will be on Dartmoor wildcamping so if the clouds are few, I should have an excellent view. Lol.

Martin

 

[Androo]

Excellent, thanks Teepee. I was out all last night catching some stunning early perseids, looks like we have a forecast of almost total cloud cover for the early hours of Sunday (here in the Lakes atleast) Damn you condensation nuclei *shakes comedy fist*

 

[Teepee]

Thanks for the info here Teepee. Excellent! I will be on Dartmoor wildcamping so if the clouds are few, I should have an excellent view. Lol.

Martin

I'm not jealous at all of ya Dartmoor camp, its been ages since I've been down that way
Enjoy your trip, hope you get a good show.

Excellent, thanks Teepee. I was out all last night catching some stunning early perseids, looks like we have a forecast of almost total cloud cover for the early hours of Sunday (here in the Lakes atleast) Damn you condensation nuclei *shakes comedy fist*

Looks cloudy here too........ah well. I tried... (again, 2 years in a row. I'll see them again one day before I die..... if I emigrate )

 

[Wayland]

Thanks for the heads up Pete.

I always seem to miss this because of weather or just not knowing about it until too late.

We'll have to see how this year turns out.

 

[Perrari]

Thanks for sharing the info. I didnt know about them, but keen to have a look now.Forecast looks good to at the moment.

 

[spandit]

I should get a good view tonight as working a night shift

 

[mousey]

OOOoooo

I may just happen do get out this weekend - I'll have to keep a look out if the weathers behaving

 

[TurboGirl]

I knew about it and been sharing the info on facebook but thats an excellent linky, Teepee, cheers, lovey!

 

[udamiano]

Nice one pete,

will get me flask of tea ready, and fingers crossed for the cloud cover

 

[Bushcraftsman]

Thanks for sharing! just checked the weather forecast for Milton Keynes this weekend...it's going to be cloudy

 

[TurboGirl]

Just picked up another good basic linky description which has digital camera instructions for anyfolk with less cloud cover

 

[bilko]

Thanks for the reminder. I'm up early on Sunday so i'll keep em peeled.

 

[Teepee]

A pleasure peeps Glad I remembered it this year.

I was out last night for an hour. Not a cloud in the sky and I saw 2

Even if the the skies are clear, there's lots of harvest dust in the air here at the moment so they'll be a bit fuzzy.

 

[Androo]

Only 2?!?
I went out with a freind from about 1230-0200 last night and under a totally clear sky we saw atleast 20...
But I am out about 4 miles from decent sized town, and walked about half a mile out into the pitch blackness. Are you in a rural area of Northhants Teepee?

 

[HillBill]

The forecast here says partly cloudy until after midnight. So i think i will go set up somewhere for a few hours and see what i can see.

 

[Teepee]

Only 2?!?
I went out with a freind from about 1230-0200 last night and under a totally clear sky we saw atleast 20...
But I am out about 4 miles from decent sized town, and walked about half a mile out into the pitch blackness. Are you in a rural area of Northhants Teepee?

Yup, its quite dark here. I can usually see the milky way. All our village street lights go out after midnight too and were about 7 miles from the nearest town.

There was plenty of dust in the air, the little dipper was impossible to pick out which isn't usually the case.

 

[Androo]

Yup, its quite dark here. I can usually see the milky way. All our village street lights go out after midnight too and were about 7 miles from the nearest town.

There was plenty of dust in the air, the little dipper was impossible to pick out which isn't usually the case.

Nice, our little village never turn out the lights, so the walk back in was met with garish sodium pollution. *blech*
I must say that the skies were nothing of the clarity of deep winter but still very clear...a well defined milky way and was very pleased to see a variety of subtley coloured shooters, and once the moon rose, a close by Jupiter was a nice way to end the night.

Forecast here is still pants, tuesday night looks good for minimal cloud cover.

 

[bikething]

Sky's clearing nicely down here on the edge of dartmoor

 

[abominable_scouse_monster]

Clear sky but light pollution till midnight when the lights get turned off on the shopping centre across the way.