OT - Shooting stars

EKE_38BPM

As always, the heavens are celebrating my birthday with a meteor shower.

Look towards the north and away from light pollution tonight for a hell of a lot of shooting stars. I usually see over one a minute, my record is 107 in an hour.

Kieran_Burns

EKE_38BPM wrote:

As always, the heavens are celebrating my birthday with a meteor shower.

Look towards the north and away from light pollution tonight for a hell of a lot of shooting stars. I usually see over one a minute, my record is 107 in an hour.

Noooo!!!

You'll all go Bliiiinnnnd!!!!

Day of the Triffds is real!

gbsahne001

have you not read / watched "the Triffids"

EKE_38BPM

It happens every year (its called the Persied meteor shower) and people would have been blinded on this date every year for thousands of years.

I think you'll be safe (maybe a little wet though, judging by the weather forecast).

rjsterry

Look north and away from the light pollution? I live in South London/Surrey - that ain't gonna work.

Kieran_Burns

Logic dictates that as there are blind people in the world and that the meteor shower happens every year, then the meteor shower causes blindness


I may need to buy kippers to stop it raining

supersonic

Is always bloody cloudy. Saw one a couple of nights ago when taking some pics of a star cluster.

EKE_38BPM

Bloody south Londoners putting spanners in my celestial works.

Just look up after dark and see what you can see!

supersonic

Ah, the orange sky of astro doom!

spasypaddy

i'll meet you on the bandstand at 11 with a telescope and some beer

supersonic

I saw a few! May have got a great photo too...

CXXC

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Bloody south Londoners putting spanners in my celestial works

......is a great comedy quiz show, still making up my mind about Angelos vs George Dawes though