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Lies, all lies.
"Look everyone, up there! The greatest meteor shower ever!!!".
...Says the man with a government grant and a telescope you can see God's nasal hair with.
It's nonsense, all I got was a bunch of cloud and some very nice (if blurry) shots of Venus.
...(well I assume it's Venus, a very large bright light in the Southern sky right now. It could of course be the overlord invasion fleet.)
He is coming:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ce/Apophis.jpg
I have an awesome view of the whole sky off my back deck. My daughter and I sat out for about an hour and saw @15 really good meteors before the moon rose. Jupiter was bright as hell too, but I didn't have the telescope out. Should be a better night for meteors tonight, I think the peak is this afternoon here, so hoping tonight is active.
Jupiter eh? Hmm. I photographed what I thought was Venus last night. Do you know how to tell the difference?
Let me know what you think... http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamneilward/3815268946/
It's a giant tadpole. Without the tail.
Venus would be visible with Mars, but not until almost dawn. Jupiter dominates the sky in August this year, coming closest to Earth on August 14. It rises pretty early in the evening, so it would probably be the first object you could see when it starts getting dark. It starts out ESE and would be at it's highest around midnight, although this year it doesn't get very high. But, it will definitely be the brightest thing in the sky all night long, and the brightest thing all year on August 14.
Another cool thing is the International Space Station. That was visible here last week for several days in a row at a reasonable time, so we checked that out, too. Not much to it, just looks like a really bright light floating across the sky pretty quickly. I was more intrigued by the accuracy of where NASA said you'd be able to see it, when, and for how long. Talk about precise.
Awesome. I've never seen Jupiter before (well not knowingly anyway).
I went outside last night at midnight to see if i could spot anything of this meteor shower, and what do ya know...2 of them came blazing right away. Like two shooting stars. I waited for about 10 minutes but didn't see any more.
It was pretty cool.
The most awesome meteor shower that I saw was when I was growing up in my teens. I was at Yosemite National Park and we went to a place that was around 10,000 feet altitude. It seemed most of the meteors would go across a 90 degree viewing arc and the meteors were very plentiful. Never have seen anything like it since.
i actually saw a lead-one about 3 days before the main shower started. I just happened to look up at the exact needed time.
I was sitting outside last night for a couple of hours. I don't think I saw any Perseids but I did see several faint lights (through binoculars) arcing across the sky in various directions.
At one point I saw two such lights cross over in the sky. They were moving at a constant speed and moved from one side of the sky to the other, fading in and out of sight near the horizon. They weren't aircraft because I saw no flashing signal lights.
Could these be satellites? I was actually more excited about possibly seeing satellites than seeing Jupiter the other day!
They could be satellites or maybe the ISS.
Jupiter can usually be determined by its moons which you should be able to see with binoculars if the sky is dark.
Here is a pic I snapped of it holding a crappy camera up to the telescope eye piece of a 8" dob reflector.
HA! I see the crack in your moon.Quote:
Originally Posted by kleinma
Could definitely have been satellites. I was out Wednesday night again and saw a few meteors, and two satellites. The ISS would appear to be pretty bright, but satellites (as far as I know) aren't nearly as bright. The two I saw were slightly dim, kind of orangish and just floated across the sky for a few seconds then disappeared. I think that was cooler than the perseids that night, definitely wasn't expecting that.
not surprisingly, my moron neighbor told me today he saw a ufo yesterday.
No, he's right, I saw it too.
what did it look like?
They couldn't identify it.
It was an object and it was flying, it could have been a long or a string, I'm not sure.
I saw it too. It was an object that was flying but unfortunately not identified because it had left its identification tag at home.
It was a fuzzy cigar-shaped thing a bit like a yeti or a weather balloon.
That wasn't a UFO, that was Earth. And you were on the Moon.
i took a picture of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by wossname
http://www.greatplay.net/uselessia/a...ges/nessie.jpg
i think i need to adjust my shutter speed. Kind of resembles J Edgar Hoover
Yeah, that's some photo...Quote:
Originally Posted by Lord Orwell
:cool:
hehe allow me to fix that...
All lucky. I was also out on 14 August, but saw no meteors. :( However, I also saw Jupiter with two moons. (Well, I suspect it was 2 moons...) I only have a crummy 70mm el-cheapo telescope, so I couldn't make out what the two "dots" next to the planet was, but I could definitely make out the cloudy figures of Jupiter. :)
Which reminds me... I baught a book that is supposed to tell you when what is happening in the night sky. It's for 2009, yet according to that book, we in South Africa aren't supposed to see Jupiter throughout August... :confused: Should I just get a different book, or should I just give up reading completely?
might have been saturn
It probably wasn't Saturn. My best views of it have been in the Winter. Right now its not much of a show.
You can see what things are around and visible here
http://www.space.com/spacewatch/sky_calendar.html
and click on planets
The book was obviously written by someone in a different hemisphere.Quote:
Originally Posted by BillGeek
More than likely...Quote:
Originally Posted by KTech
This really helps, thanks! :thumb:Quote:
Originally Posted by kleinma