Here Come the Perseids

[Baclava]

(Mostly for you after-midnight peeps who are outside anyway...)

The most familiar annual meteor shower— should reach its 2005 peak on Thursday and Friday nights, August 11–12 and 12–13. The first-quarter Moon will set in mid- to late evening, leaving the sky nicely dark for the prime meteor-watching hours from about midnight until the first glimmer of dawn



During those hours the shower's radiant point, located between Perseus and Cassiopeia, will be getting high in the northeast — so meteors should flash across all parts of the sky at a rate of about one a minute as seen by a single observer.

[Immad2]

1. Thanks for the heads up! n/t

[Baclava]

4. Good luck

Don't forget to make wish

[gizmo1979]

2. This is the only time I miss 3rd shift

is during the perseids and other celestial events I don't see because I'm in bed.

[pscot]

3. Clouds are burning off here just in time.

n/t