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Just got back from Meteor shower watching.

I just got back also. I saw a few. Some were just quick streaks of light but then others flew all around the sky. It was mighty cool. And I also froze my ass off.
 
Originally posted by: DannyLove
at 1:50 am, in LA, CA, i came out for 3 mins. I saw 1 fly by and came back in.

danny~!
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I'm in Irvine and I only saw 3 in the hour that I was standing out in the freakin cold. I was expecting 150,000.
 

from SD county...
la jolla, UCSD...

i said this in another thread...but i saw this, so i'll copy paste what i said..

MAN CLEAR DAY IN SD!! i saw a whole mess of em...so many and the go by sooo fast...it was tight...first time in my life...looks like training to stay up late w/ computers is well worth it...


some of em were really big...like kamehameha's......aha, someone told me it was like a saiyajin battle field
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it was coool.....i saw like 20-30 of them....some very big....beautiful...and it was pretty dang cold..aha
 
Gainesville, FL... PERFECTLY clear night, moon was bright - but it didn't matter

I saw hundreds of meteors! Some broke apart into two or three and shown different colors. Some even lit up the sky and left long trails of smoke behind them. I've only ever seen two before. (and I've stared at the stars for hours at a clip)

Definately exciting. Glad I didn't miss it.
 
Southwest Minnesota

Saw around a hundred or so, maybe more. A handful of them were EXTREMELY bright and lasted pretty long (3 secs +). The moon was bright and annoying at times, but it was ok.

I too have frozen feet. My buddy and I laid on his car while looking to the east.

Definitely looking forward to the next one in 100 years or so.
 
We had clear skies in Lawrence Kansas. Drove out south of town and had a great show. I was out there from 4:30am (central) to 5:30 and it was pretty much a constant show the whole time. Hundreds!!!

Definitely worth staying up for. Now, time to crash 🙂

l2c
 
I drove out with a few buddies to the illinois / wisconson border on the other side of rockford. Fricking bum-fluck land. Just got back.

Let me tell you, I drove about 2 hours out there, and 2 hours back. 4 total hours, and spent about 1 hr watching.

I would have drove 10 hours each way to do that again. It was fricking awesome. At times, it seemed that the meteors were overlapping tim time ( more than 1 in the sky at a point ) there were just 100's and 1000's of them.

some were different colors ( tinges of green, red, and yellow stand out in my mind.

I just leaned back against my truck, and put my head on the tailgate, and looked up. I could see from horizon to horizon, along with straight up ( moon behind me, which was friggin bright ) It was totaly aweome. Some would leave streaks that would last for a second or 2 ( maybe more like 3/4 of a second, but it seemed like a while )

I took a good 200 pictures with my camera, but have only looked though a few. I just pointed the camera striaght up, and clicked till it was full, had someone copy it over to my HD on my laptop, then clicked some more. I know I caught at least 1 meteor, as I heard the beep just as I saw it in the sky, and I am 99% sure the camera was looking at it. It was a wierd one that almost came straight down at us. Kinda looked like there were 3 or 4 of them all right next to each other, kinda giving it a "ball on a chain" look. Bright, bright white.

I am dead tired now, but I promise I will post the best of them when I wake up.
 
Got my wife and I up at 5:15 this morning. Bundled. Laid a blanket out in the back yard. We saw FIVE shooting stars. Stayed until 5:45. What a waste of time.

We're in Central Pennsylvania.


When I was a kid living in Oregon, every year, I think around March or maybe April, we could lay out and observe shooting star after shooting star, it was like fireworks. This morning's spectable sucked. Wasn't this supposed to be one of the best ones?
 
Originally posted by: Evadman
I drove out with a few buddies to the illinois / wisconson border on the other side of rockford. Fricking bum-fluck land. Just got back.

Let me tell you, I drove about 2 hours out there, and 2 hours back. 4 total hours, and spent about 1 hr watching.

I would have drove 10 hours each way to do that again. It was fricking awesome. At times, it seemed that the meteors were overlapping tim time ( more than 1 in the sky at a point ) there were just 100's and 1000's of them.

some were different colors ( tinges of green, red, and yellow stand out in my mind.

I just leaned back against my truck, and put my head on the tailgate, and looked up. I could see from horizon to horizon, along with straight up ( moon behind me, which was friggin bright ) It was totaly aweome. Some would leave streaks that would last for a second or 2 ( maybe more like 3/4 of a second, but it seemed like a while )

I took a good 200 pictures with my camera, but have only looked though a few. I just pointed the camera striaght up, and clicked till it was full, had someone copy it over to my HD on my laptop, then clicked some more. I know I caught at least 1 meteor, as I heard the beep just as I saw it in the sky, and I am 99% sure the camera was looking at it. It was a wierd one that almost came straight down at us. Kinda looked like there were 3 or 4 of them all right next to each other, kinda giving it a "ball on a chain" look. Bright, bright white.

I am dead tired now, but I promise I will post the best of them when I wake up.
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:| Pennsylvania is too far east to catch the show. :| :| :| I sure miss being able to see shooting stars, and sometimes the aurora bourialis, and the sheet lightning, and the waterfalls. 🙁
 
Originally posted by: AndyTriboletti
Chester County, PA. Saw hundreds. I feel like Jodie Foster in Contact 😀😀😀
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Lucky @#$. 🙂
I'm in Lehigh County, PA; it was overcast here just the slightest - only some of the brightest stars were visible. That, and I work nightshift, so I couldn't get out much at all; heard about it from my mom who did check outside a few times over the night.
Last meteor shower I was out for was supposed to be spectacular. In about 3hrs I saw about 15 meteors. One was great and went across almost the entire visible sky, but most were just tiny.
I wish I had a wide-angle lens for a camera I have - it has a manual shutter and is good for time-exposures. It'd probably capture every meteor on film then.🙂
 
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