Perseid meteor shower peak tonight

[LVSteve]

For all you night owls, the Perseid meteor shower will peak tonight with the best viewing after midnight. I shall get away from the city lights to see what's what. Happy viewing.

 

[LouisianaJoe]

This is a good source of info on where to look depending on where you live. The following link is for Louisiana. Scroll down to pick your state.

Louisiana - United States | 2013 Perseids meteor shower viewing times and information

 

[TACC1]

Thanks for the head's-up. I'll pass it along.
TACC1

 

[moosedog]

Thanks for the heads up, almost forgot.
Think i'll sit on the deck with a cuban and some adult beverage.

 

[DR505]

Thanks for the heads up, almost forgot.
Think i'll sit on the deck with a cuban and some adult beverage.

Is the Cuban an astronomer?

 

[charlie sherrill]

I just spent the last 20 minutes outside watching. I saw about 20 small ones. One looked like it had a smoke trail. What I'm more curious about is what is that red, white, and blue blinking thing NW of where I am in S. Mississippi? I can't find anything to magnify it but I'm guessing it's a star of some kind. It's not moving.

 

[Milton]

For many years people have said that they heard meteors as they fell.Of course "scientists" have stated that this cannot be because as everyone knows the speed of sound is much less that the speed of light so that at the distance meteors are in relation to an individual ,one could not hear that meteor as it fell.Someone has now discovered that many meteors emit very low frequency radio waves that travel at the speed of light so that these waves reach an individual as he is watching the fall.The problem is you need a receiver to hear these sounds.The receiver can be as simple as wire rimmed glasses or grass or curly hair.Another receiver that seems to work is plain old aluminum foil!(No aluminum foil hat jokes here!!!) If the receiver works. the sounds are a sizzling sound as you observe the fall.

 

[MSgt G]

I just spent the last 20 minutes outside watching. I saw about 20 small ones. One looked like it had a smoke trail. What I'm more curious about is what is that red, white, and blue blinking thing NW of where I am in S. Mississippi? I can't find anything to magnify it but I'm guessing it's a star of some kind. It's not moving.

It's the government monitoring you, Charlie!

 

[MI-LPTroll]

In west michigan we havent been able to see it. the last two nights have been really cloudy. hopefully it clears up tonight :/

 

[Hobie1]

For many years people have said that they heard meteors as they fell.Of course "scientists" have stated that this cannot be because as everyone knows the speed of sound is much less that the speed of light so that at the distance meteors are in relation to an individual ,one could not hear that meteor as it fell.Someone has now discovered that many meteors emit very low frequency radio waves that travel at the speed of light so that these waves reach an individual as he is watching the fall.The problem is you need a receiver to hear these sounds.The receiver can be as simple as wire rimmed glasses or grass or curly hair.Another receiver that seems to work is plain old aluminum foil!(No aluminum foil hat jokes here!!!) If the receiver works. the sounds are a sizzling sound as you observe the fall.

I've "heard" a couple big bolides as they blazed across the sky and even I knew that that wasn't really possible as these were so far up that the sound really couldn't travel fast enough as to make that possible. However, I did have curly hair and wire frames... and flashbacks from the 70's.

Hobie

 

[LVSteve]

I did not hear any of the meteors I saw last night, maybe because my ears were tuned up for approaching critters given where I was in the desert. I want to know what it was that flew by me.. or then again maybe I don't. Who knows what flies around Nevada that close to the Test Site.

Photography was a bust, but then again I don't own a tracker or a night vision device I can mount on a camera. Also the DSLR I was using is rather old and its high ISO noise is pretty nasty. I gave up on meteors but got one by accident trying to photograph the Pleiades.

 

[DR505]

I did not hear any of the meteors I saw last night, maybe because my ears were tuned up for approaching critters given where I was in the desert. I want to know what it was that flew by me.. or then again maybe I don't. Who knows what flies around Nevada that close to the Test Site..

It was the Chupacabra!