Perseid Meteor\'s sighted?

[Shawn R. L.]

Tonight\'s the Perseid Meteor Shower. Anyone get any good sightings?

 

[exilesjjb]

The only thing I saw was rain drops falling in my eyes Meteors my arse.
I was hoping to see something as being on nights I had all night to look but clouds as far as I could see

 

[supervike]

doh!

I meant to go out and watch.

Then sleep took over.

 

[PegaZus]

Aw, forgot as well. Was planning to look when I took the puppy out during the night but the wife decided she\'d be on potty duty.

Doubt she even looked up. Oh well.

 

[Trevor]

Not a thing...

 

[Shawn R. L.]

In between watching the sky and my very straight laced, nice grandmotherly neighbor try to stagger drunkenly into her house I saw one shooting star. Medium, left a smoke trail (plasma?) which faded rather quickly.

The Leonid shower is coming up in November (?).

 

[daddyo]

i couldn\'t have seen them even if it wasn\'t raining. i was at work last night, and the shipyard lights blot out everything in the night sky but the moon. rats.

 

[wingwong113]

Target sighted!

Being that I\'m in the middle of the flippin\' desert in Iraq, there isn\'t a whole lot of light to blot things out, as above.

Since I work the night shift, I managed to steal a break from getting cancer of the eyes by staring at computer screens all night, to take a jog outside to watch.

I didn\'t count many, but the few that I saw were damned long, almost going from midline to horizon with each streak.

T\'was beautiful, until about 15 minutes into it I heard the dull -crump- of a mortar round impacting someplace nearby, and went scrambling for cover.

Ahh, another day in paradise.

 

[Sukigod]

I spent about 30 min. last night and the night before and saw about a dozen total, for both nights. Seemed like a much ado about nothing as the news (both regular and scince based) were making quite the noise about it.

This was viewed from Central Minnesota between 10:00 and 11am for those so inclined to know. ( I know serious stargazers care about those kinda things

 

[daddyo]

hey wingwong- thanks for your service. keep yer head down!

sorry about going off topic. i\'m an old flightline weenie myself, couldn\'t help it.

 

[mattsterbenz]

It was cloudy, but I decided to give the sky one last look before going back inside, and saw a really good one!

-Matt

 

[McKenna35]

My In-laws were in town so the four of us went out on the back porch with pillows and lay out for about 45 minutes. Saw a couple that were pretty darned impressive! Worth staying up for, in Colorado anyway...