New Meteor Shower on Tap Tonight: How to See It (Friday & Saturday)

Discovery ^ | May 23, 2014 | by Joe Rao, SPACE.com Skywatching Columnist

[Yosemitest]

It’s starting, because I just saw a few in central Mississippi.

[KC Burke]

in Arizona I have not seen any but I am only watching in five minute chunks

[Yosemitest]

I’m going back outside, and will be in and out as I get thirsty.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Ben out for the last 15 minutes in southern SC. Nothing yet.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Reports of only a few, mostly in the Midwest. Just reported that Ontario Canada is getting a pretty good shower.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Reports are a bust mostly everywhere. Even NASA TV has dropped coverage. Just got back in after 20 minutes. Nothing. The peak just passed.

[The Cajun]

South Louisiana, been outside for a half an hour, zip so far...........RATS!

[Yosemitest]

I just came back in from laying flat on my back on the ground.
I've got a high broken ceiling, maybe 20,000 ft whispy clouds with about 35 to 55 percent of the sky visible intermittent with stars.
I saw 5 this time, all very dim and burning up within a second to a second and a half.
One, directly overhead was not much more than a twinkly coming almost straight down.
Earlier the first one I saw was the brightest and the longest lasting, coming in from north to south and down at about a 45 degree angle and lasted for about 2 and a half seconds.
I'm headed outside again.

[RckyRaCoCo]

Saw one weak one between 3:00\3:45....ISS looked cool though, nice and bright passing west to east.

[Daffynition]

Overcast and raining in Connecticut. Just dang!

[BuckeyeTexan]

Well, I drove all the way out to Sunset, TX from Fort Worth to try to escape the cloud cover. No dice. Dang it. I really wanted to see the shower.

:(

[BuckeyeTexan]

Heard any reports from elsewhere? We got bunk here in North Texas.

[Yosemitest]

I just came in again.
I haven't seen anything this time since 02:50:12 GMT but a sliver of a rising moon through the high thin clouds.

[catfish1957]

SE Texas reporting in. Zero meteor sightings, and 4 mosquito bites.

[ravenwolf]

Its 3.40 right now, I was up at 3.20 and have not saw even one, the sky is clear and bright.

[The Cajun]

Saw nothing in south Louisiana, big disappointment, going to bed.

[21twelve]

My daughter and I drove an 1.25 hours to the east. Found a gravel road out in a field to park - one other car from Seattle area had found the same one. He had been there for an hour with no meteors.

From about 11:45 to 12:30 we saw 6-8 “normal” ones. From 12:30 to 12:45 we saw perhaps 15 “normal” ones, with a few of those pretty good.

Then my daughter saw a huge one that left a trail. (I caught the trail).

Then we both saw one that was very bright (orange) and left a pulsating trail - perhaps bouncing along the atmosphere as it burned up?

The final one was a very bright orange, with a comet-like orange tail about 2 fists (20 degrees?) long. REALLY COOL!

So got to see the stars, some regular meteors, three REALLY great ones (my daughter anyway). Plus got to listen to the frogs, the smell of hay, and she was reminded again of what crickets sound like. A good evening well spent. In spite of the lack of meteors.

[amihow]

I was correcting your English and politeness. Not proper to ssy me and my friends. Lol.

[VanDeKoik]

Well I’m not sure about anyone else, but I think this was pretty much a bust.

[ravenwolf]

My daughter and I drove an 1.25 hours to the east. Found a gravel road out in a field to park

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Glad your drive wasn’t for nothing, at least you and your daughter got to see a few.

As a kid we used to sleep out side in the summer and lived in small towns or in the country so seems we saw falling stars all the time, so we just took it for granted that it happened all of the time.

I also must have seen the showers a time or two where there were more than one at a time.

This is the first time I have ever knew ahead of time that it was going to happen so I thought maybe I would see something spectacular, oh well....