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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: bucketman on December 12, 2012, 06:05:18 pm
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Where going to have a meteor shower over the next few day. Best night will be tomorrow.
http://www.sen.com/feature/the-geminid-meteor-shower.html (http://www.sen.com/feature/the-geminid-meteor-shower.html)
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Thanks buketman. I'm not sure about spending that much time out doors though its b****y freezing
Sally
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you will have to get use to it soon ;)
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I'll look out of the window.
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Cool. But it's cloudy here :-\
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Ahhh that explains it - see the "Light pollution thread".
We have had a couple of clear nights and every time I have been out for wood I have seen shooting starsin the South ( we live in central France).
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It was snowing here last night - not a lot but enough to make the stars invisible. Our view to the south is free of light pollution (north is Scotlands Central Belt which stops us seeing the stars and the Aurora too).
The best nights for viewing are of course the coldest but it's worth getting togged up to watch a meteor shower 8) 8) 8)
Fingers crossed it's clear tonight :fc:
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Thanks I'll wrap up and head out tonight! Ive never seen one. I was convinced I was seeing the northern lights 2 nights ago - but went on http://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/ (http://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/) which said no activity - so just clouds then!!! :innocent: . We do see them here apparently - but as I am usually in bed by 9, I expect my chances are quite slim!!
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THICK pea soup fog here, can't see across the yard :gloomy: and its still minus 5
so won't be any sign of anything for us.
mandy :pig:
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Freezing here but fairly clear so I will look out.
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THICK pea soup fog here, can't see across the yard :gloomy: and its still minus 5
so won't be any sign of anything for us.
mandy :pig:
Same here ::) . Disappointed I wanted to see it :(
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-20724412 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-20724412)
meteorshower pics on bbeb website
mandy :pig:
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I stood outside freezing my buns off last night but could barely see the stars. Then I realised that the mist droplets were freezing in the air and falling like sparkly sprinkles - beautiful 8)
I didn't see any shooting stars though :(
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Too cloudy here to see anything last night . Much the same tonight atm , bugger !
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Huh I forgot to look. :dunce:
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The sky here cleared last night and the stars were very bright, especially as there's no moon. My OH and I saw half a dozen weeny meteors then later I saw a big one :thumbsup: I suppose the shower is just about over.
I also looked at the nebula in Orions belt, and at the Pleiades (Subaru, like my car ;D ) using binoculars. I wish I had a simple telescope. We have an old huge one which is far too complicated to use, for me anyway. I was trying to see the moons of Jupiter but my hands are too shaky to make them out. Still, I'm really chuffed that eventually I did see some meteors.