Meteor Shower

TOFB4ISU

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Thought I would go out for about a half hour to see if anything was going on. Was not disappointed. Couple were in the fireball category. Anybody else watching?
 

SaraV

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Just came back in from trying to watch. If it's happening in the western sky, I'm blocked unless I get in the car and drive further out from town. Alas...an early morning prevents me.

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FDWxMan

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Perseids out of the constellation Perseus. Look NE. Peak should be from 1 AM on, could see at a rate of 1 per minute or slightly higher.
 

DFWClone

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I just checked and saw nothing but it's only 11:15 here in Scottsdale so I'll go back outside in a little bit.
 

pourcyne

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Yeah, from 10 to 10:30, saw about thirty. One was a line drive whose tail lasted several seconds. Beauty.
 

pourcyne

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Where are you? I had my kids out from 10:30 - 11:15 and saw probably a dozen. The ones we saw were cool but the kids got bored/tired.

Way down south (still Iowa, but barely), middle of nowhere, no lights for miles. Milky Way was about as clear as it gets in the summer. Also tracked a satellite or two, but too lazy to check if one was the space station going over.
 

CynadoAlley

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Yeah, from 10 to 10:30, saw about thirty. One was a line drive whose tail lasted several seconds. Beauty.

Same story for me. Went out to a pasture and watched from there for about a half hour. Zero light pollution. It would have been awesome even without the meteor shower.