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Sat 8 Oct, 2011 09:24 am
Just a early reminder of the up and coming Leonid meteor shower next month.
Quote:When the Leonids are on, they are really on – producing storms of more than 1,000 meteors an hour, versus a more-sedate 12 an hour usually seen at its peak.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2011/0103/Quadrantid-meteor-shower-tonight-the-top-nine-meteor-showers-of-2011/Leonid
Hopefully, the weather is good where you are.
@tsarstepan,
It fun to watch the shower at Albuquerque's 5,000 plus altitude.
BBB
@tsarstepan,
Thx for the heads-up, tsar. The weather is always good where I am. (Except when it's not.)
Get it on Youtube and you can get millions of Views, thats my plan.
@Max888Green,
Good that somebody called this thread up today so I remind myself to get up at 3AM on thurs. (Today its raining like crazy)
@farmerman,
Hope the weather behaves. According to weather.com it's supposed to be partly cloudy Thursday night.
I don’t know why all the strange excitement about this meteor shower, it should not be much of a show and a quarter moon will even wash some of that out. There is an expected 10-15 per hour (ZHR). For comparison, a dark sky site has about 5 random meteors an hour on any night.
A Geminids or Perseids shower is closer to 50-60 ZHR.
If you are waiting for the Big One – that happened in 1966 and 1999 and so is due in 2032. It is about a 33 year cycle. Those are worth the trouble, the 1966 show in some areas peaked at an estimated ZHR of 150,000 meteors!!!
While some off-years can produce small spurts of 30+ meteors per hour for one or two hours these are not common with this shower.
back again, starting tomorrow @ sunset...
@farmerman,
Yer crowding my sig line, good buddy.
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