Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Watch The Sky Thursday Night.

I am posting this two days in advance so you can plan to be outside looking up on the night of Thursday (August 11).  Of course the best viewing will be in the early hours, sometime after 1 a.m. after the moon sets and the sky gets dark.  They are predicting up to 100 meteors per hour or maybe more this year, a lot more.

Why would there possibly be more this year?  Good question.  It could be much more this year because Jupiter's gravity has interacted with the Perseids' parent comet's debris stream, sending dust and particles towards earth.  It should be quite a show, but then again, it may be a flop.  I think that I will stay up and see what happens.  If any of you watch for it, let me know if you see them and how long you had to wait in between each one. There should be at least a couple every minute and I would think that sometimes they may come in bursts.

This is one of those times when stuff from way out there comes knocking on our door.  That doesn't happen very often, so I hope it isn't cloudy.  Now for today, you all have a great evening, you hear?

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  1. Would be nice to see but 1 am? Its been a very long time since I have seen that time.

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    1. I am the opposite. I prefer to go to bed late and sleep in when morning arrives.

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  2. Haven't seen the Perseid meteorite shower in years... maybe the sky will be clear this year.

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    1. Many years ago, I was flying to New England (work related) and saw meteors looking out the plane's windows. Lots of them looked like the streaks went a lot lower than the plane. That did not give me an easy feeling (grin).

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  3. Sure wish I could see the meteor shower. However, I am cutting a lot of Z'sss at 1 AM and I have a street light right in front of my house with another just a house away. I am lucky to see any stars at all. This makes me sad as I have seen meteor showers in the past when I lived in AZ and they are really spectacular

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    1. Yep, one of the problems with urban living, too many lights. Even out here in the country where I live, there are a lot more lights now than when I moved here. But it is plenty dark enough to see meteors and stars and such.

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  4. I can see very little in the night sky from my house because of light pollution. I was amazed that at my son's house, just about 3 miles away, there were so many stars visible. I had hoped to see lots of stars in the Alaskan skies but didn't consider that it stays light until after my bedtime.

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    1. Next trip to Alaska, go in the winter time, there is a lot of night time then. My son worked up there on the North Shore and he said that he just never could get warm.

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  5. Every time ive done that, its been the "flop" so i might look out if i get up.

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    1. If you look and it makes it a "flop", please don't look, I want to see a spectacular show. (grin) Oh go ahead and look, maybe I will just go to bed and forget it. . . and maybe not.

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  6. I envy you the country life with little light pollution, Dizzy. I'd love to see them, but mine would probably be a flop even if there were hundreds, just because I could not see them, darn it!

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    1. Like I have said before, the city is moving in on me. It isn't near as dark here now as it was when we first moved here.

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  7. Hi Dizzy. My lovely wife and I watched them from the boat. Just posted a blog about it.

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