unannounced meteor shower!

[Allen]

Every night about this time I heat up the hot tub and gaze at the stars, nebulas and stuff! I even got a cool program the shows them all and gives names, distance, type, and active celestial type gps data for aiming your telescope

so it's 2am and I'm just sinking into the 104 degree hot tub when I see a falling star. No big deal, it happens all the time. But then I see another, and another, and then a pair racing across the sky together. Then the whole sky lights up for just a second as a huge piece goes blazing towards Alaska! In the first minute I counted 15 or so and over the next 6-7 minutes maybe another 25. They are less frequent now, but still falling, heading in every direction!

Some astoroid must have bumped it's neighbor!!

...is the sky falling?:aagh:


Way cool!

[Papa Mo]

I bet that was sooo cool...love to look at the night sky.....

[AZG23]

they talked about it on the radio yesterday...around 2-3am was the highpoint of it...I think is what they said

[Symon623]

Although the view must be good from your hot tub, i sweat there are 10x as many stars in the payson sky as the Phoenix sky? :smug:

[Digger]

Wish I could have watched this.

[CooL_DaD]

It wasnt unannounced i read about it last week...supposed to be tonight also...

[Allen]

well if any of you are into the stars......and free programs for your computer...


check out this free download of an amaizing program:

stellarium.org (http://www.stellarium.org)

...and they got a version for your mac Joe!

http://www.stellarium.org/img/screenshots/0.9-orion-nebula.jpg

[NVRSTUKXJ]

read about it yesterday.....the peak viewing days are tonite and friday nite.... article said could see up to 100 an hour.....

[Symon623]

read about it yesterday.....the peak viewing days are tonite and friday nite.... article said could see up to 100 an hour.....

Did they give ET's?

[katvans]

Did they give ET's?

Yeah, gonna need to find out the best time. Usually after I'm in the spa for a while I see shooting stars without even looking up. I think it's my age. :aagh::aagh:

[jperez]

thats the downside of living in downtown phoenix! City lights are way too bright to see much!

[drroadie]

JPEREZ, that is only one of the downsides to living in Phoenix, I can't remember any upsides. lol But no kidding, there is way too much light pollution in the valley for good skys. Come on up here, Chino Valley. We have the blackest skys around. We don't even have street lights for that very reason,,,,to keep the skys black. Tonight is going to be the peak of the shower I think. I hope I can get up and go see it. I think they said around
22* tonight though. Wear your warm snuggles! :pinch:

[rubicontrail]

no kidding, there is way too much light pollution in the valley for good skys. Come on up here, Chino Valley. We have the blackest skys around. We don't even have street lights for that very reason,,,,to keep the skys black. Tonight

I wish more cities were involved with Dark Sky efforts. You can even have street lights as long as they have the correct kind of shading that keeps lights pointed to the ground.

[AZXJ]

I just saw a couple really big ones... can't wait to head out during the peak.. but damn it's cold!!!! brrrrr..

[Allen]

I'm firing up the hot tub again tonite! Nice and warm!

[SEDONA RICK]

27* in Sedona. we also have Dark Sky ord.
some nice big ones. all headed NNW.

[AZXJ]

it's to light here in Chandler to see the little ones.. But the few big ones have been great!!!

[jeeperapril]

News said tonight is the big show, just before Dawn, hundreds could be seen, they want pictures too, hey Allen, get that big lens out!!!