Excellent shower here in Tremonton! Skies were clear and dark for the last hour. I saw a more or less steady display with occasional bursts of several at a time. Most were brief flashes, but many were very bright with great trails. One that was low in the southeast appeared to be a skipper. This last hour may be the best shower I have seen in my lifetime... certainly in the top few. Tyler Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID Kim Hyatt <kimharch@cut.net> wrote:
Just checked the sky here in Tropic - 100 percent cloud cover, with the usual light "pollution" from Tropic and Ruby's Inn visible. Nothing to do now but go to bed.
Kim
-----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Michael Wells Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 10:53 PM To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Geminids
The summer is worked at the North Rim featured a great Perseid shower. I sat out on the point and watched them for a couple of hours, but the coolest part was one that skipped across the atmosphere. It was super bright really big. It went across part of the sky then disappeared for a second and came back again. I was telling someone about it the next day, and they had just gotten done watching CNN talk about it. It's kind of cool to think how few people probably caught that one, yet I was at the right place at the right time.
I also got to see a satellite burning up in the atmosphere, that was once in a lifetime stuff, and I just got lucky, really lucky since I wasn't even outside, I just happened to be walking by the door when my foster dad was our back c smoking and he called me. 30 seconds later there was nothing left to see.
-------- Original message -------- From: Wiggins Patrick <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> Date: To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Geminids
I'm reading reports from all over of great Geminid displays. But here we have clouds.
I did spot a nice one through clouds half hour ago. Must have been great sans clouds.
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