Persieds are due for Sunday night local time 9pm-2am I think.
Aug 12 2007
2007-08-12 16:28:41 · 4 answers · asked by atheistforthebirthofjesus 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I went outside from 11 - 11:15 pm PDT and didn't see any meteors yet ... the "peak" is supposed to be a couple hours before dawn Monday ..hmmm
I'm going to try a few more hours
here's some wiki-knowledge:
The Perseids have a broad peak, so the shower is visible for several nights. On any given night, activity starts slowly in the evening but picks up by 11 p.m., when the radiant gets reasonably high in the sky. The meteor rate increases steadily through the night as the radiant rises higher, peaking just before the sky starts to get light, roughly 1½ to 2 hours before sunrise.
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The Perseid meteor shower peaks on the new-Moon night of Sunday–Monday, August 12–August 13 and can be seen from any place in the northern hemisphere. The Perseid meteors appear to stream away from their radiant near the border of Perseus and Cassiopeia.
The meteor rate, for an observer at a dark-sky site in the northern temperate latitudes, increases to roughly 30 per hour in the pred
2007-08-12 19:17:30 · update #1
at 11:30 PDT, I just saw 2 meteors flying north to south while I was looking towards teh east
cool ! they happened about 10 seconds apart, the second one being brighter ...
Shiloh-dog snuffling around .. Daisy-cat climbing up onto me for a few seconds ,, but the meteors showed !!!
2007-08-12 19:36:30 · update #2
Lisa, you should be in prime location for viewing
I just came in ... saw 3 or 4 in 5 minutes
Cindy ... bummer about the clouds
LayLooROse ... I used to know panhandle region (Amarillo etc) which is great for 'big-sky' but central Texas I don't know.... good luck
2007-08-12 19:51:43 · update #3
YAY! Yes, I want to see it!
2007-08-12 16:31:53 · answer #1 · answered by Lisa the Pooh 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The final meteor bathe i can bear in mind gazing for hours became back in the 1940's turning out to be up in So. Calif. there is no way i'm going to verify the only this evening because of the fact I stay in Western Washington. i did no longer see the moon for countless months when I moved right here. too lots rain and cloudy skies for that. that's raining acceptable now.
2016-11-12 04:14:16 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I will be watching from Center of Texas
2007-08-12 16:36:31 · answer #3 · answered by LayLooLaRose 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wanted to, but it's cloudy here (Tampa Bay, FL).
2007-08-12 16:34:12 · answer #4 · answered by cindy1323 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋