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Haggis
Trad climber
Scotland
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Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 11, 2009 - 04:42am PT
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starting tonight and finishing tomorrow night (GMT) the earth will pass through the tail of the comet Swift-Tuttle, this is going to cause a great meteor shower (if anyone cares) so get somewhere dark and clear with a few brews and a deck chair because NASA reckon its going to be a good'un.
I am headed north with the camera but I think the moon maybe a little too bright - plus I am in Scotland and it will be raining.
Have Fun
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corniss chopper
Mountain climber
san jose, ca
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Aug 11, 2009 - 05:29am PT
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I want to see one like this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8pPGxAyrY0
just had a thought this could be that tool bag the female astronaut
lost when working on the space station. Titanium tools burning up as they reenter the atmosphere?
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paganmonkeyboy
climber
mars...it's near nevada...
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Aug 11, 2009 - 09:35am PT
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meteor bump...
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
Boise....
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Aug 11, 2009 - 09:36am PT
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I've been callin' it the "Perswig" shower......Hi, Dale!
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dmalloy
Trad climber
eastside
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Aug 11, 2009 - 09:42am PT
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This thing peaks on Wed night and the moon does not rise until around midnight - for those of you (us?) lucky enough to be in the Meadows, or drinking some hooch with friends in the Buttermilks, it might be a pretty good show.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Aug 11, 2009 - 11:21am PT
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I have it from reliable sources that the tool bag reentered earlier this year.... most of that stuff is incandescent on renetry... may not be for long though.
I've always wanted to make a time exposure of a shower... if I had time I'd do it tonight...
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Aug 11, 2009 - 12:35pm PT
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Unfortunately, the shower does not usually peak until after midnight, which this year is after the moon is out.
I'm not sure it matters all that much, though. For at least the last 15 years I've made a point of watching the perseids, and I found that variations in moonlight make some difference, but getting to a dark sky makes a LOT more of a difference.
I have yet to be disappointed. I have an excuse to spend the night outside away from city lights, and get a cosmic light show for free. What's not to like?
John
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L
climber
Wrung through the paradox, broken into wholeness
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Aug 11, 2009 - 03:01pm PT
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Awesome! Was just talking about the Perseids with the ScuffMeister and looking forward to--Oooooh Man! Did you see THAT one?!?!
Now all I have to do is find a dark sky in LA...
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Aug 11, 2009 - 03:22pm PT
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Jingy
Social climber
Flatland, Ca
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Aug 11, 2009 - 03:29pm PT
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When?
Where is the best place to view this event?
I may visit Yosemite tonight.... I'll just look up from there and hope for the best
Thanks for the update..
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Aug 11, 2009 - 03:41pm PT
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That linked one is cool!
I doubt NYC is much of a place for viewing such things but...oh well. I saw several falling starts in JTree last visit - can't imagine how cool it must be to see meteor showers.
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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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Aug 11, 2009 - 03:50pm PT
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Thanks for the heads up. It's even looking pretty clear here in the Denver area for viewing.
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Aug 11, 2009 - 04:36pm PT
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happie - I'm always falling on starts. Those routes that say "boulder start"...
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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Aug 11, 2009 - 05:06pm PT
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Thanks for the reminder. We used to try and head to the hills for a view of the showers every august. But since moving we seem to usually have cloud cover and don't get to see them and it doesn't get really really dark in August until the wee hours of the night.
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Aug 11, 2009 - 05:08pm PT
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falling starts....hahahah.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Aug 11, 2009 - 05:09pm PT
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Sit down starts, falling starts ... whatever will they think of next?
Sounds like there might be an excellent view from Glacier Point.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Aug 11, 2009 - 05:21pm PT
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If'n it weren't the full moon too. . .
Let's hope for a stupendous show!
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mazamarick
Trad climber
WA
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Aug 11, 2009 - 07:33pm PT
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Hart's Pass with a nice single malt.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Aug 11, 2009 - 07:54pm PT
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MH,
Glacier Point is probably my favorite viewpoint. I often would bring my telescope there -- my family has a cabin in Yosemite West which, unfortunately but necessarily, is in escrow to sell :-(. I need to be in the Big Raisin (aka Fresno) tomorrow, so I'll probably just go up to the hills around the middle of the undergraduate evening (around midnight).
John
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mark miller
Social climber
Reno
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Aug 11, 2009 - 09:11pm PT
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I've been hanging in the Sweetwater's the last few days and when the Moon comes out it wasn't even worth pulling out the sky charts and astronomy toys. I'm sure this shower will have some bright ones that will still be visible with the Lunar light but .......It's frustrating.
I live in one of the light pollution capitals of the world. I've built a stairway to a flat roof (2 stories up) and hardly ever take my 8" Meade out because of the Casino lights.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Aug 11, 2009 - 09:14pm PT
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I'm ready. Should be way Cool ! The planet and universe are so great....how did Hollywood ever get popular ? Bunch of people doing stupid stuff while life unfolds outdoors. Yeah !
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John Moosie
climber
Beautiful California
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Aug 12, 2009 - 02:39am PT
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Ed, that is because the main show starts after midnight, which would be the 12th.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Aug 12, 2009 - 03:37am PT
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I don't think so...that's why the put 12-13...
but I'll check
Tonight around 11pm there wasn't much happening...
Here's a faint image, look for the line going right and up about left-right center and below the horizontal centerline, 2220 pdt looking northeast.
there was a mist blowing through that is illuminated by lunar rise...
60 s exposure at f3.5 and ISO 800, using the 18mm end of the zoom...
This is a bit more subtle...
a 30s exposure, 2254 pdt looking a bit more north than the first one.
Busy airway in Livermore...
I thought this might be one at 2311 pdt...
but when I looked in the previous exposure I saw the other end of a high flying aircraft....
The moon was up and the mist was heavy enough that I was loosing high magnitude stars... so I called it a night.
To do this I was using my FujiFilm S5 Pro, and a Nikon MC-36 Remote Cord. This is a handy device that has a programmable exposure timer. I had it set up to shoot every 35 seconds with a 30 second exposure (5 sec between exposures). I did this for over an hour.
Not much happening that I could record, though I saw a couple of big ones outside of the camera field of view.
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Mimi
climber
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Aug 12, 2009 - 10:05am PT
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Awesome sky. Thanks for the pics, Ed.
Bump for a better show tonight. No chance here in Seattle, moon or no moon.
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CF
climber
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Aug 12, 2009 - 10:49am PT
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Tuolumne Meadows last night, 10pm
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boognish
Trad climber
SF
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Aug 12, 2009 - 10:58am PT
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I saw 2 really good ones last night around 11 MST. Both were bright with a long tail that ran for a ways. Lots of light pollution in SLC too. I hope its better tonight.
A couple of years ago I was pulling an all night solo drive across hwy 80 in NV. At first I thought I was falling asleep, until I realized it was a meteor shower. Quite an experience one the dark highway with Art Bell and shooting stars screaming across the sky like headlights on a cosmic highway.
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Aug 12, 2009 - 11:19am PT
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Beautiful shot Chris!
Big Bad Bill Frey says "say hi to Falk"
edit..
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CF
climber
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Aug 12, 2009 - 11:48am PT
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who frey?
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Aug 12, 2009 - 01:00pm PT
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Ed,
My understanding is that the Perseids peak on 8/12-8/13 UST (=GMT). GMT is 7 hours ahead of Pacific Daylight time. The exposure to the debris peaked early this morning, our time, but tonight should also be a good show. Besides, the moon rises later, and a wee bit smaller.
John
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L
climber
Wrung through the paradox, broken into wholeness
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Aug 12, 2009 - 01:26pm PT
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Thanks for the photos, Ed & CF. Seeing real night sky here in the megamopolous is always a treat. ;-)
Marine layer nixed any chance of a view last night. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for tonight.
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Haggis
Trad climber
Scotland
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 12, 2009 - 01:33pm PT
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we had cloud cover last night but tonight is looking good too, headed out again to give it a go.
great photos guys!
Rob
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Aug 12, 2009 - 05:38pm PT
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The only ones I am getting to see is the little icon on http://www.google.com
Sort of cute they made their icon special for this. At least somebody's still got money in this economy!
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paganmonkeyboy
climber
mars...it's near nevada...
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Aug 12, 2009 - 11:38pm PT
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Go Now ! twilight to moonrise is the time - go go go !
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Aug 12, 2009 - 11:53pm PT
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it's clear here but I'm creaky. Could we get an early bird special show tonight?
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Jingy
Social climber
Flatland, Ca
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Aug 12, 2009 - 11:57pm PT
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Ed - Great shots....
One looks.. then reads...
Great stuff
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paganmonkeyboy
climber
mars...it's near nevada...
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Aug 12, 2009 - 11:57pm PT
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thunderboomer at 8k feet over here - it keeps rolling around the top of the canyon, but i'm not getting a break...
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dmalloy
Trad climber
eastside
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Aug 13, 2009 - 12:07am PT
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whoooaaa, I almost forgot....I'll get right up to the Buttermilks and give you all a report in 2 hours....
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Aug 13, 2009 - 02:05am PT
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some overcast... more activity than I saw last night, but not so lucky getting an image... here is a coincidence of an aircraft and a meteor
and the continuation after a 5 second pause
this is a view east from Livermore...
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Aug 13, 2009 - 03:11am PT
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couple more shots...
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Aug 13, 2009 - 03:26am PT
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Nice shots ed
saw some great (bright) trails tonight, but none where the camera was pointing.
Plane:
two planes:
mini-Meteor:
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Aug 13, 2009 - 03:39am PT
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I probably shot roughly 233 images representing 1.94 hours...
the field of view was roughly 16mm/35mm = 2.87 str radians, or about 14% of the sky.
3 meteors/1.94/0.14 = 11/hr
given the "seeing" tonight that's probably not a bad estimate of the rate....
I saw some pretty spectacular trails tonight, but I also didn't luck out with the camera...
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Matt
Trad climber
primordial soup
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Aug 13, 2009 - 03:43am PT
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... is that roughly 1.94 hrs, ed?
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Aug 13, 2009 - 04:52am PT
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Just back from a hot tub seesion.....Call me a spoil-sport, but, for me, Meteor Showers are like Fishing and Golf. It takes an experience in nature that was satisfying in itself and adds an element of expectation that spoils it a bit.
On the other hand, Venus dazzled me at 4 am a few morning ago
Peace
Karl
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Aug 13, 2009 - 11:58am PT
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Matt, I know the cadence of the shots, just didn't check the sum of shots... so roughly is in the count... I've already disposed of the images of "just the sky."
Karl, I too love the experience, and hyping the showers is always problematic because the "high rate" may not be as spectacular to the uninitiated as the hype would lead one to believe. But I had fun sitting outside peacefully and watching the sky again. Something that I don't make time for enough, though I have a professional interest in what is happening up there.
When I was a boy a group of friends would get together to do things astronomical. One summer in the '60s we decided we'd record the Perseid, laying on our backs with a tape recorder going, we described the meteors we saw, and drawing them on a star chart, WWV beeping away in the background to give us a time base.
We made a massively awesome chart showing the radiant, and also picking up a minor shower in Hercules. Time of the shower, all that...
We sent it in to the American Astronomical Society which rejected it, at the time they only accepted observations from a single person... we were a collaboration.
It was my first "rejection notice" for a scientific "publication." But the work was wonderful.
dit-dah-dah dit-dah-dah dit-dit-dit-dah
and the sweat smell of lying in a field in the summer time, looking up at the sky all night long from evening twilight to dawn. Just searching the skies for clues to reveal their mysteries.
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grover
climber
Northern Mexico
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Aug 12, 2012 - 01:26am PT
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2012 bump
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Aug 12, 2012 - 01:49am PT
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They are present in the skies over Vedauwoo tonight!
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Chewybacca
Trad climber
Montana, Whitefish
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Aug 12, 2012 - 12:08pm PT
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What makes this event a bit more special to me is that Venus, Jupiter, and the crescent moon are joining the show.
Last night we watched from our local ski area. Tonight we're going to watch from Logan Pass in Glacier NP. It seems that we usually have clouds during these celestial events, but we've got beautiful clear skies for this one.
Wish I had a nice camera to record it, but I guess my leaky memory will have to suffice.
Happy viewing everyone!
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/10aug_perseids/
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Aug 12, 2012 - 02:43pm PT
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hey there say, khanom... wow, around 3, here, from the window, i SAW the cresent moon, too... from this partcular window, i ususally see it about anywhere from pre-dark to dark, which has been from 8??- about near 11?
usually by three :O it is wayyyyy across on the other side of house/yard... so i was very surprised... :))
perhaps i should have gone out, but on the 'last legs of the journey' from the some kids being over, and was on the phone, ready to soon sleep...
(not sure, either,as to how this neighborhood is, either, as her is a bar, down the street, and well, you know, there is occasinionaly 'walking-type-travelers' on their way home...
taking with someone from boston that enjoyed the moon, too...
this time was a 'wish i had' as all the neat tree-voices from critters were out there... and as ed sai:
similar to this:
just viewing the sky, is soooo nice, at night...
:)
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Aug 13, 2014 - 10:48pm PT
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A 2014 Perseid before the fog rolled in and the moon came up
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Radish
Trad climber
SeKi, California
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Wish I was with Vitaliy and Limpingcrab in Tehipite Valley watching this!!
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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bunch of us will be in vedauwoo at sushifest in two weeks. set up the tripods boys and girls!
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looks easy from here
climber
Ben Lomond, CA
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Aug 11, 2015 - 08:44pm PT
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Peak runs through the next 3 nights.
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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Aug 10, 2016 - 06:34pm PT
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It's gonna be a good show this year.
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looks easy from here
climber
Ben Lomond, CA
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Aug 10, 2016 - 09:47pm PT
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I got fogged out last year. And if the last few nights (including tonight) are any indication it looks like I'm missing them again.
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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Aug 11, 2016 - 09:00am PT
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I'm like a politician looking at a balloon every time I see one. I get all googly-moogly, clapping my hands and jumping around like a Golden Retriever.
I've been lugging the new spectacles into the high and starry nights. Like Fat Skis for the eyeballs.
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Aug 12, 2016 - 09:23am PT
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got one last night zooming by M31
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looks easy from here
climber
Ben Lomond, CA
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Aug 12, 2016 - 09:50am PT
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Just as the moon dropped behind the hills and it started to get good and dark a hazy fog began to roll in from the coast. I saw a half dozen or so, but by 1 the show was obscured.
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Aug 12, 2016 - 07:29pm PT
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I was in south central Cali last night, near the Mexican border. Woke up about 3:00 am to take a pee and in the time it took me to empty my blader I saw 4 or 5. By the way, in India a falling star is considered inauspicious . :)
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Aug 12, 2016 - 08:55pm PT
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I live in LA, not a great place for star gazing!
So I drove north about 1-1/2 hours to Mt Pinos, a XC ski area at 8300 feet.
quite dark, and clear sky.
Once it got dark, the show began. The large parking lot gradually filled up with several hundred people.
But it got VERY cold. I finally got into my car around 10pm, and left about midnight.
I saw a lot of meteors, including a couple of fireballs. A number were among the brightest/biggest I've seen in my life.
I'd certainly recommend it to anyone who has an interest.
BTW, about 10 years ago, I climbed Mt. Baldy, and sat up there for the night watching, and it was quite spectacular, but I was higher.
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Aug 13, 2016 - 10:56am PT
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another one from last night
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Shetville , North of Los Angeles
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Aug 13, 2016 - 11:08am PT
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I saw a Fireball at the Von's 15 and under check out...
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