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Title: Meteor shower
Post by: alewife on 13:28:14, 12/08/16
Supposed to be the best display tonight, so if the skies are clear where you are, maybe head outside before tucking yourself up in bed O0
Title: Re: Meteor shower
Post by: Dyffryn Ardudwy on 13:43:40, 12/08/16
The weather has been too unsettled in the past few weeks, and there has been considerable cloud cover.
Even at the height of the annual Meteor storms, one only sees around 10-15 meteors an hour, and it's areal nuisance  trying to strain your neck into the heavens waiting for the next spec of sand to shoot across the sky.
I used to sit in a deckchair, but even when these annual storms are predicted to be impressive, they never are.
Their still lovely to watch when the weather will allow.
Title: Re: Meteor shower
Post by: fernman on 14:33:56, 12/08/16
Best way is to get in your sleeping bag and stick your head out of your tent door  :)
Follow the really useful advice of a man in NASA, who instructed to "look up".
Title: Re: Meteor shower
Post by: Glyno on 15:18:27, 12/08/16
http://viz.co.uk/the-disappointids-meteor-shower/
Title: Re: Meteor shower
Post by: Andies on 15:49:55, 12/08/16
Got up at 1am. Too cloudy, saw nothing  :-[
Title: Re: Meteor shower
Post by: Strider on 15:51:53, 12/08/16
http://viz.co.uk/the-disappointids-meteor-shower/
Not as funny as it used to be ;)


Cloudy here so may not see much sadly....
Title: Re: Meteor shower
Post by: bricam2096 on 16:30:28, 12/08/16
blue skies here...which means no doubt it'll cloud up later, lol
Title: Re: Meteor shower
Post by: alewife on 16:34:24, 12/08/16
I'm getting the feeling that we're all feeling a little 'glass half empty' on here this afternoon  :-\ 

Title: Re: Meteor shower
Post by: Mel on 18:53:06, 12/08/16
Hmmmmffff.  Glorious sun all day and clouding over now  >:(
 
I'll still poke mi 'ead owt the back door later on mindst  O0
Title: Re: Meteor shower
Post by: bricam2096 on 19:15:57, 12/08/16
I'll keep my eyes peeled for Uranus (snigger snigger)  :D
Title: Re: Meteor shower
Post by: pleb on 11:23:19, 13/08/16
That's useful now I know and its the following day............. :D
Title: Re: Meteor shower
Post by: adalard on 13:19:12, 13/08/16
It was cloudy here as it usually is whenever there's some sort of astronomical event going on, so we went to see the new Star Trek movie instead. It was great: we saw an alien planet, an unstable nebula  and a space station - all without getting a crick in our necks too...  ;)
Title: Re: Meteor shower
Post by: fernman on 22:35:41, 14/08/16
Visible again on Sunday night (14th) according to the tv weatherman just now.
It was clear when my wife and I looked on Friday night but because of the light pollution here north-west of London we could hardly see the brightest stars, let alone any meteors.
I do hope someone living in a less bright part of the country will get their chance tonight.
Title: Re: Meteor shower
Post by: Innominate Man on 10:29:29, 15/08/16
Not as funny as it used to be ;)

Maybe it is ..... it might just be us who don't have the sense of humour we used to have !
http://viz.co.uk/the-disappointids-meteor-shower/ (http://viz.co.uk/the-disappointids-meteor-shower/)

Fnuk, fnuk  (I just can't remember who used to laugh like that. That's getting old for you  :-[ )
Title: Re: Meteor shower
Post by: pleb on 10:33:12, 15/08/16
Twas Finbarr Saunders n his double entendres
Title: Re: Meteor shower
Post by: Innominate Man on 10:49:33, 15/08/16
Twas Finbarr Saunders n his double entendres
O0   O0
Title: Re: Meteor shower
Post by: bricam2096 on 11:31:06, 15/08/16
Off topic but didn't he go "fnarr fnarr?"
Title: Re: Meteor shower
Post by: Innominate Man on 13:06:24, 15/08/16
Off topic but didn't he go "fnarr fnarr?"
Not sure but I remember the story of their lodger scratching his helmet on thistles (while riding a motor bike)   :o
Title: Re: Meteor shower
Post by: pleb on 16:21:42, 15/08/16
The end splits n it goes all salty.................. ;D