Perseids

Aug 1, jsp said:
The perseid meteor shower peaks on August 13. Unfortunately,
a nearly full moon will obscure viewing. Information about
the shower is available at
http://www.jupiterscientific.org/sciinfo/index.html

What are your suggestions for where I should go if I:
1) Am living in Boston, MA
2) Want to try to watch the Perseids either the 12th or 13th
3) Can drive out of the city and am willing to drive up to ~2hrs.
each way
4) Would enjoy a day/night hike in the area before settling down
to watch

Thanks!
CS

I saw a few last Fri am after moonset.

With all the moonlight, I can't imagine any location would be that good
(well, maybe the dark side of the moon!).

Phil

Chinasaur wrote:
Aug 1, jsp said:

The perseid meteor shower peaks on August 13. Unfortunately,
a nearly full moon will obscure viewing. Information about
the shower is available at
http://www.jupiterscientific.org/sciinfo/index.html


What are your suggestions for where I should go if I:
1) Am living in Boston, MA
2) Want to try to watch the Perseids either the 12th or 13th
3) Can drive out of the city and am willing to drive up to ~2hrs.
each way
4) Would enjoy a day/night hike in the area before settling down
to watch

Thanks!
CS

Today, Phil Wheeler said:
With all the moonlight, I can't imagine any location would be that good
(well, maybe the dark side of the moon!).

Yeah, but Leonids were worth it last year despite the moon, so I'm hoping
that this will be the same. Plus I need a practice hike anyway, so as
long as I'm driving out of the city... This being NE I'm worried about
the clouds too (saw Leonids from SF, CA). Maybe go to Walden Pond?
PHL

"Phil Wheeler" wrote in message
...
I saw a few last Fri am after moonset.

With all the moonlight, I can't imagine any location would be that good
(well, maybe the dark side of the moon!).

Since the Moon is full, the dark side of the moon is therefore pointing away
from Earth - you then won't be able to see Perseids burn up in the
atmosphere - result, even worse location - you'd also have to spend a lot of
time travelling.

Ric

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the peak on Tuesday night,
from 11pm until about 2 am EDT? We plan to go to our observing
site, without scopes, lounge chairs only, and set up behind
a row of trees to the SE to help block the moon that night....
try it for a while, anyway, just to see what develops.
Clear Skies,
Tom W.



Richard Bullock wrote:
"Phil Wheeler" wrote in message
...

I saw a few last Fri am after moonset.

With all the moonlight, I can't imagine any location would be that good
(well, maybe the dark side of the moon!).


Since the Moon is full, the dark side of the moon is therefore pointing away
from Earth - you then won't be able to see Perseids burn up in the
atmosphere - result, even worse location - you'd also have to spend a lot of
time travelling.

Ric

"Phil Wheeler" wrote in message
...
I saw a few last Fri am after moonset.

With all the moonlight, I can't imagine any location would be that good
(well, maybe the dark side of the moon!).
snip

Nah...I bet it's raining there too.

BV.

I went out Saturday Night to the mountains, did some observing and hopped into
bed about 10pm, moon was pretty bright and Mars wasn't up yet.

Got up about 2:30 to look at Mars. It was OK but the seeing was NOT GOOD.
Even at 40+ degrees above the Horizon it would only take about 240X. About 4Am
the moon went down and I got in some nice views of M76, best ever I think, the
clusters in Auriga, and lots of stuff.

Oh yeah, the topic of this thread....

Saw quite a few meteors including some that left definite tails.

One in particular was quite unusual, it was bright but reasonably close to the
moon. Somehow it looked like those phony meteors I always see in cartoons, it
was bright, the brightness never changed, it was just gone.

Jon

"Phil Wheeler" wrote in message
...
I saw a few last Fri am after moonset.

With all the moonlight, I can't imagine any location would be that good
(well, maybe the dark side of the moon!).

Phil


Night vision goggles. I usually see at least a dozen shooting stars on a 2
hour night sortie with the NVG's, even with a full moon. If it looks like
it is going to clear up here in MD, I'm going to run into the base and have
a look.

Clear skies (I hope),

Tom