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"Strong Meteor Shower Expected Tonight space.com – Tue Aug 11, 9:19 am ET The annual Perseid meteor shower is expected to put on a good show this week for those willing to get up in the wee hours of the morning and wait patiently for the shooting stars. In North America, the best time to watch will be between midnight to 5 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 12, but late Tuesday night and also Wednesday night could prove fruitful, weather permitting. The Perseids are always reliable, and sometimes rather spectacular. The only things that puts a damper on the August show are bad weather or bright moonlight. Unfortunately this week, as the Perseids reach their peak Tuesday and Wednesday nights, the moon will be high in the sky, outshining the fainter meteors..."

I might want to get out and check out the sky late night if there isn't too much cloud cover. Anyone else heard about the shower tonight?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090811/sc_space/strongmeteorshowerexpectedtonight

8/11/2009 4:39:35 PM

I hope you can see that shit from the Phoenix airport.

8/11/2009 4:47:20 PM

thanks to TKE-Teg, we'll all be taking golden showers

8/11/2009 4:48:47 PM

Who is Meteor and why should I care that he's finally taking a bath?

8/11/2009 4:49:06 PM

I thought I saw a couple last night, but I wasn't sure. Guess I really did see them afterall.

8/11/2009 4:50:18 PM

too bad no one gives a fuck about light pollution

8/11/2009 4:52:03 PM

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"thanks to TKE-Teg, we'll all be taking golden showers"

lol, anything to help out.

8/11/2009 4:59:16 PM

neato i'll have to look for it

8/11/2009 5:02:29 PM

maybe i missed it but what part of the sky should i be looking

i want to try some extended exposure shots with my old camera

8/11/2009 5:14:30 PM

I hear thunder, so I assume that means I'm not going to be catching any meteors tonight

8/11/2009 9:43:19 PM

i know my black ass will be out looking for shooting stars

8/11/2009 9:47:02 PM

meateator

8/11/2009 10:21:23 PM

did meteor die?

8/11/2009 10:29:35 PM

THEN WHO WAS PHONE?

8/11/2009 10:30:01 PM

what direction? usually its ne i think?

8/11/2009 10:47:51 PM

i believe it will be left of the moon

8/11/2009 11:13:38 PM

Meteor is the nickname of my penis

8/11/2009 11:14:22 PM

sweet I had forgotten about this!

8/11/2009 11:14:44 PM

i'm on my porch right now waiting for it. it's super cloudy where i live though

8/11/2009 11:21:03 PM

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"Meteor is the nickname of my penis"

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"sweet I had forgotten about this!"

8/11/2009 11:23:04 PM

I have my alarm set for 3am. Someone come sit with me!

8/11/2009 11:26:44 PM

go away clouds!

8/11/2009 11:26:52 PM

think i saw one

8/12/2009 12:59:31 AM

but it is so clouuuuuuuuudy

8/12/2009 1:02:27 AM

I should go check to see if the clouds/storm blew over

8/12/2009 1:04:53 AM

Please to embed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5KKcBQen-Y

It was clear out here at GSO for a while now and it figures I'd actually start seeing them and high clouds move in.

8/12/2009 1:20:10 AM

8/12/2009 1:20:35 AM

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"too bad no one gives a fuck about light pollution"

You should've seen the night sky in Iraq (at least when it wasn't dusty). Many miles away from ANYTHING.

also, every night is a meteor shower at 20k' on NVGs. There are meteors all the time...you just don't usually see them with the naked eye.

8/12/2009 1:22:52 AM

I, too, <3 looking at stars and meteors

8/12/2009 1:24:22 AM

My dog decided to wake us up and I just saw how cloudy it is outside. I'm soooooo sad

Yo Duke...take me up in a plane ok? I'll blow ya.

8/12/2009 1:26:34 AM

oh snap

8/12/2009 1:27:01 AM

haha

8/12/2009 1:29:10 AM

I'm a fan of that smiley. I usually smile when I'm you're done too!

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8/12/2009 1:33:41 AM

8/12/2009 1:40:18 AM

i saw one. first shooting star i can confirm was def a shooting star

8/12/2009 2:29:20 AM

Can't see jack in Fayetteville, mostly cloudy, moon scatter destroys the rest

8/12/2009 2:54:47 AM

i saw mine more north than north east

8/12/2009 2:57:34 AM

same here wwwebsurfer

except there's less light pollution here than in F-ville

and it's been storming so there's patchy cloud cover

and the moon is really bright

I have not been able to see one as of yet

8/12/2009 3:10:00 AM

dammit it was clear all day and now it's decided to cloud up

8/12/2009 5:55:31 AM

I saw a whopping total of 4. At least the few I saw were impressive.

8/12/2009 7:33:14 AM

^^^yea whats up with that? How does Fayetteville have more light polution than Raleigh and Charlotte?

8/12/2009 9:53:07 AM

bunch of us drove all the way out to BFAngier... we saw about 10 between the 6 of us during the cloud breaks


i think we had more fun sitting in a field drinking and telling really bad jokes than we did watching meteors.

10/10 would do again

8/12/2009 11:28:32 AM

^^RD doesn't live in wake county. he lives with his parents in little washington iirc

8/12/2009 11:29:43 AM

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"How does Fayetteville have more light polution than Raleigh and Charlotte?"

Fort Bragg ?

8/12/2009 11:30:23 AM

^ that would make sense.

8/12/2009 11:31:15 AM

I didn't even try to look for meteors last night. Too cloudy, and my neighborhood has too many street lamps (light pollution) to allow me a good view without driving somewhere.

They say you can still see some tonight, but I think it will be too cloudy again

Clearest sky I ever saw was in the middle of nowhere in AZ around 11pm when driving from the Grand Canyon to Las Vegas. Either that or when I was on Maui last summer (on the desert side away from development). Easy as hell to see shooting stars and orbiting satellites.

8/12/2009 12:02:05 PM

i didn't know anything about this til I went to http://google.com but i'll keep an out for it

8/12/2009 1:37:34 PM

umm I think you missed it there

8/12/2009 1:38:04 PM

^hey mister "i have no reading comprehension", if the skies are clear tonight you can still see some meteors.

8/12/2009 2:42:56 PM

^fuck your couch

set em up

8/12/2009 3:14:32 PM