Meteor Storm Coming

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[Procyon]

Well looky there! They've got my star on the map: Procyon. It means "before the dog", the dog star being Sirius. And I am being series.

[RadioAstronomer]

Look at post #36 :-)

[RaceBannon]

Meteor STORM alert for Early Tuesday Morning!!

[petuniasevan]

Hey! You know what I meant!

:-P

[Cicero]

It looks as if the shower will be radiating from quite near the planet Jupiter. That should be pretty easy for most people to spot, since it is the brightest object in the sky when Venus is below the horizon. Venus is never very far from the rising or setting sun, so they are pretty easy to distinguish.

[BenLurkin]

Take a look at this. Don't say you haven't been warned!

http://www.pobratyn.com/phpwiki/images/day_triffids.jpg

[shezza]

Baltimore Sun had a "graph" of the expected activity...clear skies predicted, and peak times are to be around midnight Monday night and again around 5:30 Tuesday morning. The kids and I are opting for Monday night, dh will just go out Tuesday, since that's about the time he leaves for PT anyway. ;o) Should be spectacular! (Oh, say, is that what al Qaeda was talking about?)

[strela]

Everyone in North America CAN see the meteor storm, barring weather.

I was going by the news story that started this thread that noted "People along the east coast, including in the Philadelphia region, are in for an astronomical spectacle Monday night into Tuesday morning." Further, the forecast is mostly cloudy on Tuesday in my locale. With those factors combined, I'll probably stay in my warm bed early Tuesday AM instead.

[MHGinTN]

Bump to find this thread tomorrow night.

[BenLurkin]

[HighWheeler]

The moon should be very low in the West (approx 15 degrees from horizon) and behind you as you view the radiant toward the SEast at the peak. Sit on the East side of a building with the moon behind it, it will help your night vision. All bets are off if you are near any cloud cover.

Go to this page and find out when the moon sets in your area on November 18 and 19.

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneDay.html

[TheMole]

I loved John Wyndham novels and stories when I was a kid. I think I read them all. It was a shock to realize as an adult that many of them were intended to convey bleeding-heart liberal pacifist pinko ideas. You know which one stands up the best to a reread? Consider Her Ways, the 1961 story about a future world where the men are all dead as a result of biological warfare experimentation gone wrong (a Wyndham favorite of course) and the women have formed a kind of hive-like Brave New World society run by feminist communists. It's an astonishing piece of prescience.

[sorrisi]

I was there that day having taken a bus with a bunch of people from Stamford for the event. It was the first time I went to a protest rally (in college I went to class instead of the anti war rallys). Connecticut is a small state - about 3 million people so 60,000 was a HUGE number of attendees. My next rally was at Lieberman's house after the 2000 election.

[m1911]

Bump

[CapandBall]

We heard about this on the news today. Might be worth getting up and seeing (from your *roof* would be nice!). I wonder how well a digital camera on a tripod would capture this?

[fivecatsandadog]

El Crapo conditions for meteor watching. Rain and/or fog predicted for southeastern Michigan tonite through tomorrow.

[lepton]

Not bloody likely, with all the city light pollution interfering with the view.

Last year they were bright enough to see in Brooklyn...including an occasional burster bright enough to throw faint shadow.

[FreedomPoster]

I was able to see the Leonids quite well the last time around, and I'm in an Atlanta suburb, with probably a similar amount of light pollution.

[Ignatz]

Sometimes it sucks to be me......

Tonight's Central Indiana forecast: Occasional rain. Mild with lows near 40. South winds 10 to 15 mph becoming west after midnight. Chance of rain 80 percent.

Oh well, I get up about 5am anyway...I'll stick my hand out and try to catch one!

[strela]

I was able to see the Leonids quite well the last time around

That's why I'm a bit bemused by the news story that starts this thread. It claims that viewers on the East Coast will be the ones who are able to see the Leonids best this year.

Here, with a full moon, cloud cover (forecast), and city lights close to the East view, it doesn't look like I'll be seeing anything Tuesday AM. If you see some, congrats to you.