Anybody going Meteor spotting tonight?

[Monsieur Remings]

What time does it start?

Don't ask Eurosport, they'll have scheduled it to start at a certain time and you'll get all excited only to find tennis or something.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

Do we need to alert Bruce Willis?

(Armageddon)

 

[Diggs]

YES! Just spotted a couple

 

[classic33]

Almost perfect spotting conditions(Away from street/house lighting, clear sky.) & I've not seen one.

 

[Wobblers]

For a change, the sky's actually clear! Spotted a couple when I was out looking twenty minutes ago despite the streetlights.

 

[slowmotion]

I was swimming in a chilly dark sea somewhere off the east coast of Vancouver Island tonight. There were a couple of good meteors but nothing that great. The phosphorescence in the water was fantastic. Who needs Space when you can enjoy Earth?

 

[hobbitonabike]

Gang of us out in the sis in laws garden...saw quite a few in the end...not loads though. Saw the ISS and few planes. Good stuff!!

 

[fossyant]

Too much cloud last night for meteors . Get the ISS App as it gives you realtime directions and elevation to where it should be. Works great.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I got a pic

 

[Speicher]

What does the ISS look like with the naked eye? I thought I saw a plane, as something was moving very quickly.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I we were to rebrand the constellations, I nominate this one to be the Penalty Taker.

Though the sky was mostly clear last night down here, there was far too much city glare to see anything but the brightest stars.

 

[GrasB]

Saw a few bright streaks across the sky on my ride in to work this morning. Maybe I managed to see some of the stragglers?

 

[madferret]

This was just the peak of it, its been going on some time, there are a number of smartphone apps (Meteor Shower Calendar is one) that show you where to look in the sky etc. In Anglesey last week with not as much light pollution as round where I live we saw about 5-10 a night and that was just looking up now and then. Also saw lots of different satellites, always amazes me to see such stuff, I wish they would turn off all the lights now and then.

 

[fossyant]

What does the ISS look like with the naked eye? I thought I saw a plane, as something was moving very quickly.

Its like a very bright star moving quite quickly across the sky. It takes 4 to 5 minutes to pass over from horizon to horizon. Visible even with street lights. Usually tracks west to east or south west to north east.

 

[Inertia]

What fossy said, I find it very cool but I'm a bit of a geek like that, its possibly the closest thing to a man on the moon I will get in my lifetime. Ive not been looking for the perseids yet.

Here is a handy twitter feed for the ISS and general astronomy, he tweet warnings when the ISS is approaching the UK,

https://twitter.com/VirtualAstro

he is a cyclist too