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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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