Re: Perseids
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
Re: Perseids
On Aug 13, 2007, at 4:46 AM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: 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. That about matched the experience of Ryan and I around midnight Saturday. Not peak viewing, but a small handful of bright ones that left nice glowing trails for a second or so, including a pair that went in dead-opposite directions a couple of minutes apart -- clearly, someone didn't get the memo. Dave ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Perseids
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-perseid-meteor-showe (no r at the end) Maybe that means it's a really big showe . . . No Added Content Maru -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Perseids
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-perseid-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. -- Mauro Diotallevi Hey, Harry, you haven't done anything useful for a while -- you be the god of jello now. -- Patricia Wrede, 8/16/2006 on rasfc ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Perseids
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. One might want to take their observing report with a somewhat larger-than-usual grain of salt, then, especially if they report seeing something like pastel pachyderms . . . 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. If you noted the time on my previous message you might have guessed that I had been outside for a brief look. I didn't see anything, but then my house sits right on the edge of the city (the city-limit line passes through my front yard). Tonight or actually tomorrow morning ought to be better: the first peak is predicted for iirc about 3 AM local time Monday morning. -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Perseids
This is the weekend that the Perseid meteor shower should peak. http://www.earthsky.org/radioshows/51468/the-2007-peak-of-the-perseid-meteor-showe (no r at the end) or http://tinyurl.com/33b72x -- Mauro Diotallevi Hey, Harry, you haven't done anything useful for a while -- you be the god of jello now. -- Patricia Wrede, 8/16/2006 on rasfc ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
