At 03:03 PM Saturday 8/11/2007, Mauro Diotallevi wrote: >On 8/11/07, Ronn! Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 09:17 AM Friday 8/10/2007, Mauro Diotallevi wrote: > > >This is the weekend that the Perseid meteor shower should peak. > > > > > > So give it a peek. > > > > If it's cloudy, you may be piqued. > > > > > > > > >http://www.earthsky.org/radioshows/51468/the-2007-peak-of-the-per > seid-meteor-showe > > >(no "r" at the end) > > > > > > Maybe that means it's a really big showe . . . > >I have some friends who are going camping this weekend so that they >can watch the show(e) -- that is, if they can still see straight by >dark. They're taking an obscene amount of beer along. > >My wife and I may be taking a little romantic drive out into the >country late tonight to take a look. It should be lots of fun.
There was some haze and high, thin stuff here this morning, but I did see a handful which equaled or surpassed Mars in brightness. One of them was clearly a non-shower member, as it was going the wrong way (across Cassiopeia toward the head of Perseus). Sunday morning the air was more transparent, and though I didn't get out until it was starting to get a little light I saw a few fainter ones. -- Ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
