[Man50D]

It’s overcast here.

[fhayek]

An odd tradition, here at the fhayek family. Every August, me, and my daughters (I have four) trod out to view the annual meteror shower. They even look forward to it. I saw three tonight. The others saw half a dozen. My wife just rolls her eyes.

[AngieGal]

I went out with my sons and saw a few. Normally I love our street lights, but not tonight!

[dalebert]

ping ..i missed it

[struggle]

The persids aren’t that great.

My wife and I climbed Mt. Ikoma in Japan to see the Leonids in 2002 (?) and it looked as if God had taken a monkeywrench to the night sky and scattered the debris to us, below. 10 meteors in one second.

What a show that was.

Coincidentally, I went to the huge Asuka museum in Osaka-fu/Nara in 1998 during the Persids and saw two meteors over 3 hours.

[WSGilcrest]

SF bay area update:

4 shooting stars
2 satellites
1 owl

Still early though. Will go out again after midnight.

[Noob1999]

Happy Ramadadingdong! on this most holiest night of the Muzzie lunar calandar. Praise be to you Mohammad for caring for us for these past 800 years!

Actually, I was on a wonderful offshore sailing trip to Maine many years ago. We happened to draw the evening watch. The Persied metieors started streaking across the sky; the Northern Lights were in full bloom; and at about 1am the new moon started it’s accent into the night sky

Talk about beautiful, talk about almost orgasmic, it’s one of the prime visions in my dreams lo these 25 years later.

Happy Ramadingdong, you’re celestial bodies are aligned! Please don’t kill or mutilate, or be-hesd anyone on your night.

[GnuHere]

Had no luck here in MO - a friend saw one and I saw none in about 30 min.

[The Cajun]

Lots of clouds, some breaks, slightly foggy/misty from all the rain today, lots and lots of skeeters, saw nothing in half an hour ;^(

[freeagle]

Southern Oregon - saw 5 between 10 and 11:15 p.m.. Fun, but not seeing the predicted “60 per hour”. Will set alarm and go out at 3 a.m.

[TXnMA]

Hit the kill switch on our pole light and spent 2.5 hours (1 - 3:30 am) on a lounge -- with my feet toward the Perseus radiant. Saw thirty (30) "definites" and far more than that of "possibles" (too fast, fleeting and faint to "be there" when my eyes tracked over to them).

The curious thing is that the majority were not aligned with the Perseus radiant, but traveled opposite or at right angles to Perseid tracks. The best meteors were crossing Cassiopeia from left to right. If I hadn't known it was the wrong time of year, I would have thought they were Ursids...

Bottom line: from my viewpoint, the Perseids have been a "bust" this year...