mart360

Apaarantly theres meant to be a major shooting star storm tonight,

200 hits per hour apparantly..


looks like i,d better get the kettle on, and me thermals


mart

ALi-B

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And it's as foggy as **** round here

Ken 275

Leonids?

Just a quick guess.

K.

MadGrip

what time and which direction ?

mart360

The start of every year sees the arrival of the Quadrantids meteor shower. You can always be guaranteed a fine display that may reach up to 100 meteors per hour on the late evening of Tuesday 3rd January. The waxing crescent Moon will have set by the time the shower gets going leaving a nice dark sky. The whole shower is active from the 1st to 6th of January, giving you plenty of chances to see some of these bright fast meteors.


taken from the beebs website.

dont know what time the moon sets though?


doing some more digging


Mart

MadGrip

cant see the moon anywhere here (LEEDS) so its a nice dark sky & I dont get much light pollution.

but I dont think the previous batch of stellas are going to allow me to stay awake much longer

Phil

Gav

Wahoo just got a telescope for christmas and had me first look at the moon tonight! I was amazed and well and truely hooked!! Been into space since i was small and my mum and dad suprised me with the telescope this year will be having a good look tonight!!

gav..

MadGrip

could be wrong, but I dont think a telescope will be much good for looking at meteor showers, but you should get a great view of Mars

Gav

Thought it might be too powerfull!! i'm gonna get an attachment so i can fit my digital camera on and take piccies Should get some great ones of the moon!!!!

Gav..

MadGrip

any news mart ?

The Rani

Can't see anything here - too cloudy

duSTI's PA

So did anyone see anything last night , I was looking but did not see much , at least we have until the 6th , if anyone has the abilty to take pics and post them on this thread it would be great to see them

Dream Weaver

Clear as anything here last night but didnt see a thing

ricardo_wrx

This guy must be the first subaru owner in the cosmos!!!!!!!!!!

Gav

rhybeck

anyone know what happend after the major shooting star storm in day of the triffeds

lol

DONT LOOK !!! LOL....

mart360

clear at the mo, so its thermals and a flask!!!

migh see if i can get the slr powered up!!


bugger ditched me old tripod last week


M

Huxley

"note to oneself" Don't speed read I could have sworn it said *******

Huxley

Or the neighbors uranus

ricardo_wrx

I heard that this time of year is good to see 'Pigs in space'?
Is this true................. I never thought pigs could actually fly!

Ken 275

Good luck with the telescope, even binoculars are great enhancements to the human eye, but just make sure your neighbours know you aren't perving!

I have been watching the ascension of Venus each night now for about two weeks (very bright, roughly 220 degrees in the SW direction) and there are numerous man-made satellites to scan with a scope.

I saw a UFO once when doing an all night fishing session in the hills about here, a very odd experience, the bugger just stopped dead in the night sky and then accelerated away at a right angle to his original trajectory. I also had a witness but no photos as it was completely unexpected.

K.

Have fun.

K.

King RA

was the ufo just a light or could you make details out at all?

Ken 275

Just a white light in the sky mate, I was using the naked eye only. There were no coloured lights on it that I could see and the speed of it was gobsmacking. It was probably some US test plane operating out of Machrihanish rather than ET I'd imagine, but who knows?

Really weird though and a bit scary when you are surrounded by trees, in the dark and have a five mile walk home to do in in the wilderness!

K.