By gp (Garrett) on Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 09:36 am: Edit

The largest meteor shower in 35 years is to be this weekend. Actually 5:09 a.m. EST on Sunday to be exact. Will take place in the Eastern sky. So all you early birds get out there and take a gander and you folks in the west just party late and stand on the roofs of your trucks in the parking lot of the bar you happen to be.

By JP on Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 09:44 am: Edit

Thanks, I was wondering about that!

By John Cinquegrana (John_C) on Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 09:45 am: Edit

Personally, I'm tired of watching things fall from the sky....

Just kiddin'

5 am on Sunday, us married folks with kids aren't allowed to go out Sat night....oh well, thanks for the info.

By Rob Davison (Pokerob) on Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 11:11 am: Edit

hey garret

did you hear last week the the "northern lights " were visable from over our neck of the woods.

i looked and looked but there was nothing.. i wonder if anyone saw em.

thanks for the metior tip. i saw a good one a last month down in VA.

rd

By mike w on Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 11:46 am: Edit

i was outside that nite the lights were out...i had seen it before here in central ohio about 10 years ago...amazing.....kinda makes you want to move to alaska.

By Steve (Steve2) on Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 12:22 pm: Edit

any chance of getting good views on the left coast? or should i just get a good night's sleep and wait to see pics later?

steve

By gp (Garrett) on Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 12:58 pm: Edit

i guess the show from the west will not be great. not really sure though. speaking of alaska my friend JUST emailed me about the northern lights. she said they are pretty amazing at this time. and rob......did not get to see any of them from our neck of the woods. then again i was not really looking or paying attention either.

By mike w on Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 01:48 pm: Edit

it lasted about 30 mins. it started out as a mist that floated across the skyover my farm. i thought at first it was some kinda of odd cloud formation but as it moved in a streak of mist would shoot out of it towards the south and a warm red tint would form. then the whole cloud turn red with finger like streaks, all of which was red it was only red tho. ten years ago i observed a whole rainbow of colors. all in all in was reathtaking to me. my wife on the other hand thought i was nuts to be standing in a corn field with nothing on but a coat and underwear on!

By gp (Garrett) on Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 02:52 pm: Edit

bad visual. really bad visual!!! it sounded really nice until you mentioned the whole coat and underwear thing. when was this? i was driving from baltimore a week or so ago and think i may have seen this. (referring to the sky.....not your hideous outfit)

By Bluegill (Bluegill) on Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 06:23 pm: Edit

Yeah, I agree with Garrett. Nice visual until the underwear thing, Mike. Sounds like you were about to be visited by aliens, but the tightie whities must have scared them off.

I'll try to party late and stand on top of the Disco like Garrett suggested. I'll most likely hit my head on the ceiling of my garage though.

It's the Leonid Meteor shower. I got married on Nov 20th and it was a killer light show for the guests at the outdoor bar to enjoy. I cashed in some major favors to arrange the meteor deal...

By Seann on Saturday, November 17, 2001 - 02:31 pm: Edit

Hopefully heading Strawberry tonight, to watch the shower from the hot springs.
Should be fun.


Seann

By Brian Jackson (Nerover) on Saturday, November 17, 2001 - 04:46 pm: Edit

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,38779,00.html

a short article about it...once in our lifetime...4000/hour.

Brian

By Redsrover (Redsrover) on Saturday, November 17, 2001 - 09:49 pm: Edit

I plan to set the alarm for 0500 EST to catch the show on the roof of my Disco out in the back yard. It will be the first time in recent memory that I have been awake and alone (married, 2 kids under age 5...)

Red

By cartner on Saturday, November 17, 2001 - 09:58 pm: Edit

I got pictures of the aurora developed, they are hard pics, but if I can find a scanner, I could send them to someone. They were taken from the roof of my '94 Discovery, so they are obviously relevent to this site!

By Rob Davison (Pokerob) on Sunday, November 18, 2001 - 12:21 am: Edit

damn it! pittsburgh is covered in a dense fog all day today and it's still here .. there is even an advisory. i cant see a single star

:{

rd

By Leslie N. Bright (Leslie) on Sunday, November 18, 2001 - 12:45 am: Edit

Just came back in, saw a couple of good LONG streakers, and several nice regular-size ones that were really bright, and many faint ones. Neat....


-L

By Brian Jackson (Nerover) on Sunday, November 18, 2001 - 12:23 am: Edit

It's 6:12 here in CT, with clear skies and I just watched for two hours...it was absolutly amazing! I have some long exposure digital pix @ 3.3 megapixel...I'll have to really examine them later today to see if I caught one! They were everywhere!

Brian

By Glenn Guinto (Glenn) on Sunday, November 18, 2001 - 09:19 am: Edit

Very cool! Although, we didn't get to see it at 5:09 a.m. We woke up at 5:40 a.m. and still saw quite a few! None of that "one-per-second" like they were saying. That must've been earlier. It was more like one-per-twenty-seconds. Oh well, very cool though!

-glenn

When you wish upon a star...
I wished for RTE suspension lift, RTE bumper with Warn winch, rock sliders, skid plates, lockers, steel rims and swampers!

By mike w on Sunday, November 18, 2001 - 03:58 pm: Edit

well at 04:55 there was a dense fog that had completely covered everything less than 50 feet tall, in other words my 94 was about a foot short so i didnt get to see a thing, oh well i guess i have a reason to live another 99 years.

By gp (Garrett) on Sunday, November 18, 2001 - 04:32 pm: Edit

a pretty amazing show. was planning on having my camera on a tripod all ready to go, but of course i got home late and was not feeling up to it. make sure to post the pics here. was a great show here in central PA. damn cold and clear, but great to see something like that. sorry to hear about the fog rob.

By SOLO on Monday, November 19, 2001 - 08:07 am: Edit

Ahhhh. There's nothing like getting up at 5:00 am to take a really cold meteor shower. It was a fantastic show. I spent about an hour watching from my back yard and was able to count about 40 in 15 minutes, I lost count after that. It was nice to see things falling from the sky that didn't have people in it.

By Dean Brown (Deanbrown3d) on Monday, November 19, 2001 - 11:18 am: Edit

I woke up kinda accidentally at 3am and moved to my camping air-bed outside for 3 hours.

Best meteor was very bright, and left a tail I could see for over a minute. Counted about 10 per minute.

Now, I'm not a meteor watcher, but I prob saw more that night than my whole lifetime put together!

By Bill Bettridge (Billb) on Monday, November 19, 2001 - 11:22 am: Edit

Pretty cool - we were camping in the GWNF and woke up early and drove up the trail to the top of Second Mtn - 360 deg view and not a cloud in the sky - no other outside lights for miles - watched for about 45 minutes - pretty freakin amazing show!

By Dean Brown (Deanbrown3d) on Monday, November 19, 2001 - 01:34 pm: Edit

Bill,

How many could you see per minute, average?

By Bill Bettridge (Billb) on Monday, November 19, 2001 - 02:04 pm: Edit

Dean - honestly don't know - they were coming fast and furious from all directions there for awhile. Seemed to be no rhyme or reason to their origin or direction. We could only watch one slice of sky at a time

If I had to guess, for the first 1/2 hour, anywhere from 20-30/minute, but then some longer breaks with many fewer, and then a period of more activity

By KJ on Sunday, November 25, 2001 - 08:40 pm: Edit

We were in the Caribbean last week for the show and it was an incredible sight. We got up about 4:30 and trouped out onto the beach, pulled out the loungers and watched the show. We always see falling stars down there, but at times we were trying to catch the sight of four falling at once. We didn't even try to count, we must have seen a couple of hundred at least. Unlike Maryland where we live, in the islands where we go there are no hills and no trees to obscure the view, so the meteors seemingly fall all the way into the sea. It was fascinating to notice the dipper constellations rotating in the sky. We also caught sight of a few satellites. It was warm, the surf was crashing and it was a lovely time spent with my beloved.....

Karen

By Dean Brown (Deanbrown3d) on Sunday, November 25, 2001 - 09:33 pm: Edit

Sounds better than my viewing - freezing my *@%%s of in NJ at 25 degrees (F) with trees surrounding me and wild animals creepin around close by, orange skies, covered with dew and soaking wet. Hmm..... Glad you had a good time

By gp (Garrett) on Monday, November 26, 2001 - 09:29 am: Edit

rub it in a liiiiiittle more there Karen. next thing you will tell us is how horrible it was having that sun burn while having Rico give you a massage while sipping on some jack and cokes!!!

By KJ on Monday, November 26, 2001 - 10:10 am: Edit

Heeheehee....gp, I think you need a little time on Temptation Island yourself...86 and sunny....ahhhhhh............

Karen

By gp (Garrett) on Monday, November 26, 2001 - 10:24 am: Edit

well i am planning on heading to Vegas with some HS/College buddies in January. actually the time i am going just happens to be the same weekend the Adult Film Expo is happening. go figure??

...crossing my fingers!