[ganesha]

I watched the meteors from Humphry's hill which is just south of Ellicotville New York. I knew the view would be better if I got out of Buffalo. Thank you to the people at spot coffee for giving me directions to a good place to watch. I stayed up until dawn and saw more shooting stars in one night than I have seen in the entire rest of my life. I saw two events where there was a bright white flash instead of just the usual streak. Did anyone else see this? Could this have been a meteor exploding?

BTW My sympathy goes to those people who got clouded out. I have had this happen with other astronomical events, but this time we got a clear night.

[kcat]

hi ganesha

I am here in Alabama and I saw lots of meteors, alot of them with cool flourescent green trails - but I only saw one with the incredible bright white flash. I love to hear about others seeing this. Most of the early a.m. it was just me and my cat, me "oh my goshing" and her sharpening her claws on the hammock. My 11 year old did get up with me for about 10 minutes. It is such a neat thing to share.

[Benson_Carter]

I think Upstate got an excellent show. I'm in Rochester, and drove to a mountain top south of Naples in the Bristol Mountains (1 hour south or Rochester)

I saw 1500 + meteors between 12:30 and 3:00 from virtually 360 degrees that I had of view at the peak of the mountain, and at least another 500 between 3:30 and 5am when I drove north to 20 miles south of Rochester and watched at my old roommate's house.

all in all the most humbling and amazing thing I've seen in my 21 years.