I'm out of state this week in rural Illinois. Nice dark skies here. Milky Way is beautiful and the Andromeda Galaxy looks amazing in my 15x70 binoculars (all I have with me). Observed Perseids last night 11-12:30 and also Tues morning 2:00-3:00. Good meteors both nights. Lots of faint ones. Several that lit up rather bright and left trails. All the kids (8, 10 and 13 yrs) got to see a few but younger kids did not really have the patience to stare and watch and were frequently disappointed when they were not paying attention for the big moment. Certainly not the amazing meteor shower I had hoped for but still a very pleasant show. On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 6:41 AM, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote:
I went out for about half an hour early this morning, saw seven in that time. One was at least first magnitude, the others considerably dimmer. Only the bright one left a lingering train, all were fairly short streaks. Not like the Geminids at all. Not bad for a short stint from the light-polluted 'burbs. On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 2:08 AM, Wiggins Patrick <paw@digis.net> wrote:
I'm not sure what happened but it looks like the weather Goddess decided we needed clear skies tonight.
When the clouds first cleared around 10 I figured it was just a sucker hole. But here it is 4 hours later and the skies here near SPOC a completely clear.
Seeing the Milky Way straight overhead is just an added treat.
I can't say tonight's shower is the best I've seen but there have been some nice meteors. A couple leaving trains that lasted a few seconds.
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