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red
11-17-2002, 09:38 PM
There is a once in a lifetime meteor storm (http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/16nov_leonidstv.htm?list718051) happening late Monday night early Tuesday morning! I'm not talking a few shooting stars here and there. I'm talking up to 300-400 in 15 minutes! Check here (http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/09oct_leonidsforecast.htm) to see what to storm will be like in your part of the world.
I'm taking a 1/2 day off on Tuesady just so I can sleep in. :D
amanda
11-17-2002, 09:49 PM
OOoooooH Thanks red. I'll be out there....
red
11-17-2002, 11:00 PM
Oh Amanda, I checked storm predictions for Tokyo and they look really bad. I don't think you will be able to see anything. So sorry.
Frieda
11-18-2002, 09:21 AM
just go out and try. i live close to amsterdam, lots of lights there, and close to lots and lots of greenhouses. the sky is usually bright orange here at night. still, i could see something of the last meteor storm.. not much, but hey! :p it's worth trying anyway.
amanda
11-18-2002, 09:51 AM
It was clear all day today, then night comes- whamo! Clouds. Heaps of 'em. Filthy buggers. Thanks anyway, red.
Panda
11-18-2002, 12:37 PM
yah, its bloody cloudy in ireland aswell.
dag nab it!

prolly stay up though.
bit of a night owl anyway :)
Deviate
11-18-2002, 01:23 PM
yeah, we caught this a couple of years ago. took the telescope out into the country and everything. we ended up ditching the telescope, it was more interesting to the naked eye.

(then again, i have learned most things are more interested when naked is involved ;)

-st.
red
11-18-2002, 01:27 PM
Yeah, you don't need a telescope or binoculars, just warms coats and blankets and coffee!
Deviate
11-18-2002, 01:28 PM
screw.

looks like no sleep again for me tonight.

-st.
saskuoch
11-19-2002, 12:10 AM
My roommate and I talked about trying to see it in spite of the lights in Hong Kong. But then we realized it was raining :(
red
11-19-2002, 05:28 AM
oh god. I can't believe I'm up. ow. Better go to the observatory. This better be good dammit cause it hurts to be up this early!
red
11-19-2002, 01:55 PM
It would've been even more impressive if the clouds wern't there.:mad:
By the time we got the observatory it is was 4:30am, the storm was just peaking. It was really weird to see all these people (50 or so) on the ground bundled up. It looked like a strange astronomer slumber party. I counted 25 meteors in 30 minutes! That's pretty fast and they were bright too, brighter than Jupiter. (I can see Jupiter from downtown Houston—lots of people mistakenly think it's a star.)
The show petered out around 5:30am, but we stayed to see the International Space Station sail by.
It was worth it to get up, but I wish I'd gotten up earlier. Oh well. The next big meteor strom like this is in 2099. Let's see…to see that one I'd be…dead. Oh well.

gaak. It still hurts to be up.