Perseid metor showah tonight!

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Re: Perseid metor showah tonight!

Post by Pappa » Fri Aug 13, 2010 12:41 pm

Mysturji wrote:So how was it last night?
I was too lazy to get dressed again and go see when I remembered. :nono:
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Re: Perseid metor showah tonight!

Post by mistermack » Fri Aug 13, 2010 1:32 pm

I did go out, the sky completely cleared here before midnight.
I don't think that the meteors were any more frequent than a couple of days ago, but they were more spectacular. They seemed to happen all over the sky, no favoured area. The difference was that there were some that seemed to be really low, they seemed to skim the tops of the houses, although I'm sure they didn't really. There was one that was an incredible red colour. I've certainly never seen anything like that one.
I didn't see any green ones though. Perhaps Pappa was watching them through a wine bottle?
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Re: Perseid metor showah tonight!

Post by Rum » Fri Aug 13, 2010 1:34 pm

Looked out but it was cloudy here. :lay:

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Re: Perseid metor showah tonight!

Post by BlackBart » Fri Aug 13, 2010 6:49 pm

I saw two last night in about 10 minutes of looking...

The best I've ever seen was in 1997 I was walking to work about 6am just before sunrise, there was one every 60 seconds and the tails were lit up by the sun...they looked like green star wars lasers.
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