greybeard
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The annual Persid meteor shower peaks tonight thru the morning of the 14th.
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Meteors peak tonight
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farmerjan
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Thank you @greybeard .
They mentioned it on our local news also... I find it interesting even though I cannot pick out one constellation except the big dipper and the little dipper... No imagination to "see" the others in the stars... but I like seeing things like shooting stars and such...
They mentioned it on our local news also... I find it interesting even though I cannot pick out one constellation except the big dipper and the little dipper... No imagination to "see" the others in the stars... but I like seeing things like shooting stars and such...
Nesikep
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I might be out with the girls at night.. I haven't seen all that many meteors the last couple nights.. lots of satellites though
farmerjan
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By the way, how are you and how are the girls? Still putting in lots of FIX IT time???
Travlr
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What time is good to watch? Or is it all night long from wherever someone is?
farmerjan
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Our local TV weather group said to look northeast .... from the Roanoke Va area... best time is midnight to dawn...
Not useless to me…I'm a bit of a night sky fanatic…don't know much about it but thoroughly enjoy looking at it on a clear night…I like using the Sky Guide app on this little iPhone…it's a free app that shows labels so you will know what you're looking at…have used it to see the international space station pass by when the timing is right…and kind of like the ethereal music in plays while using it…pretty cool little app.
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greybeard
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Something I failed to mention....
In the night sky, we see stars and planets, and they slowly move thru our view as the seasons pass, but our own solar system's planets also move thru out the years. We tend to view everything on a flat plane..2 dimensional but the reality is, it's in 3 planes. Objects may appear to be beside or above each other but most are also in front of (closer) than one right beside it. The same is true of the planets we know. Our solar systems planets are not exactly in flat plane orbits like Saturn's rings are. If shown in 3 dimensions, they look more like an atom with it's nucleus and then it's different electrons orbiting all around it and they have different length orbits, and travel at different speeds. The reason I explain this, is because occasionally, 2 or more planets will "appear" to move very close together, even touch, but one is closer and others farther away. It's knw as being "in conjunction".
This conjunction for mars and jupiter happened this week and i forgot to mention it. Their closest appearance to each other happened during daylight hours Wednesday, but for weeks, they could bee seen each night getting closer and closer together in the ENE sky in the early morning hours. It's neat to watch over the course of even a short period of a week, as they grow closer and closer together, then finally 'touch' one night..last night, which is the closest they have approached to each other for over a decade. They 'appeared' to be a double planet, with one being much brighter than theother (Jupiter) but Jupiter was actually much farther away, 'behind' Mars. Jupiter appears brighter because it is so much larger than mars and reflects more light. Too late to see them 'kiss' but you can watch this week as they now start to drift apart.
In the ENE (almost due East) sky, from about 3:30 am (central time) hold your arm out fully, stretch your palm up vertical and about 2 lengths of those = around 30 degrees above horizon. Look for a bright light, reddish in color (Mars) and another brighter object very close to it. Pleiades (7 sisters) will appear to be almost directly above them. They this morning, appear to our eyes as being about 1" apart, but that distance will increase each morning for the next few weeks.
In the night sky, we see stars and planets, and they slowly move thru our view as the seasons pass, but our own solar system's planets also move thru out the years. We tend to view everything on a flat plane..2 dimensional but the reality is, it's in 3 planes. Objects may appear to be beside or above each other but most are also in front of (closer) than one right beside it. The same is true of the planets we know. Our solar systems planets are not exactly in flat plane orbits like Saturn's rings are. If shown in 3 dimensions, they look more like an atom with it's nucleus and then it's different electrons orbiting all around it and they have different length orbits, and travel at different speeds. The reason I explain this, is because occasionally, 2 or more planets will "appear" to move very close together, even touch, but one is closer and others farther away. It's knw as being "in conjunction".
This conjunction for mars and jupiter happened this week and i forgot to mention it. Their closest appearance to each other happened during daylight hours Wednesday, but for weeks, they could bee seen each night getting closer and closer together in the ENE sky in the early morning hours. It's neat to watch over the course of even a short period of a week, as they grow closer and closer together, then finally 'touch' one night..last night, which is the closest they have approached to each other for over a decade. They 'appeared' to be a double planet, with one being much brighter than theother (Jupiter) but Jupiter was actually much farther away, 'behind' Mars. Jupiter appears brighter because it is so much larger than mars and reflects more light. Too late to see them 'kiss' but you can watch this week as they now start to drift apart.
In the ENE (almost due East) sky, from about 3:30 am (central time) hold your arm out fully, stretch your palm up vertical and about 2 lengths of those = around 30 degrees above horizon. Look for a bright light, reddish in color (Mars) and another brighter object very close to it. Pleiades (7 sisters) will appear to be almost directly above them. They this morning, appear to our eyes as being about 1" apart, but that distance will increase each morning for the next few weeks.
