The Persied Meteor Shower

http://www.space.com/spacewatch/pers...10-100806.html

This year promises to be a good year as the moon will only be a few days past new moon. Find a dark site and enjoy!

Clouds moved in and blocked my view, but before they did I saw a couple of spectacular ones. Looking at my images from last night, I caught two aircraft, three or four satelites, and one meteor. :-(

Did anyone else go out and watch them?

Speed - ha! I knew you'd show up!

We had totally cloudy skies and rain.

I hope you post your shots. Looking forward to seeing some. :thumbsup:

Liz

I was out to watch them last nite ( ...sans camera), with a nice clear, dark sky, and was rewarded with several random bursts of streaking light, in a very short time span !!
Nature's fireworks at their best. :thumbsup:

Normally we're in MI for them, but couldn't go this year. Sat in the yard last night but nothing was getting through Chicago's light pollution :(

I wasn't willing to drive into the hills at between 2:30am and 4:30 am when it peaked here.
We really need to do something about light pollution.

I was out with the dog a little after midnight and was looking around but didn't see anything. To many trees and lights in the area, I did see a lot of stars out so it was clear enough.

James