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Pheebs
03-01-2011, 23:57
Heads up people!

Quantradids Meteorite shower tonight and tomorrow eve! Roughly a shooting star a minute - normally nice lush long ones too!

Unfortunately for me its a cloooooooudy night (boo HISS) so I am putting my blanky and picnic matt and hat back indoors in hope it might clear up for tomorrow night and a snooze under the sky!

Hopefully someone out there might have a little bit more luck than me :) Make a wish! :D

x
Mark
04-01-2011, 00:27
Peak for the shower is 4-6am. There's also a partial solar eclipse at around 8-9.30am (depending on where you live). Looks like I'll be clouded out for both.

Remember folks - NEVER look directly at the sun.

PS - And watch Stargazing LIVE (BBC Two 8PM tomorrow and weds, first part on iPlayer).
Kitten
04-01-2011, 08:43
You see anything Peebee or did you stay in? We've got snow again so unlikely to see anything this morning unless it clears.
Goose
04-01-2011, 09:43
Peak for the shower is 4-6am. There's also a partial solar eclipse at around 8-9.30am (depending on where you live). Looks like I'll be clouded out for both.

Remember folks - NEVER look directly at the sun.

PS - And watch Stargazing LIVE (BBC Two 8PM tomorrow and weds, first part on iPlayer).
I tried to take a look, I pointed a telescope at the sun and used binoculars to look into the eyepiece. It was too cloudy though.
Kitten
04-01-2011, 09:51
Solar eclipse eclipsed here too!
Pheebs
04-01-2011, 11:17
Solar eclipse eclipsed here too!

What on Planet Crazeelovelypeople?! That's amazing! You must be in the same orbital as us on Earth :D ;)


And noooo it was sheer cloudy cloud clouds all night. Got up a few times to check but by 5am I threw the towel in and snuggled down into the depths of my duvet. :)

Maybe tonight! Not likely mind with the weather as it is!

SKY POWDER PUFFS mooove out the WAY! Pleeeeeeaaaaaaaseeeeeeeeeeee
Feek
04-01-2011, 11:28
I've not been able to do anything in 2010 as I've not got my data interface sorted out but come the big meteor storms later this year I'll be in my shack bouncing radio signals off of the meteors during the big storms.
Goose
04-01-2011, 14:52
...later this year I'll be in my shack bouncing radio signals off of the meteors...
My enuendo-alarm just went off, and I'm not sure why. ;D
Kitten
04-01-2011, 15:13
;D still gutted we missed the last one due to stupid cloud. Froze almost death in a lay-by on a country lane with curtain twitchers thinking we were doggers. Not fun.
Pheebs
04-01-2011, 18:15
;D still gutted we missed the last one due to stupid cloud. Froze almost death in a lay-by on a country lane with curtain twitchers thinking we were doggers. Not fun.

Ahahahaha ;D


Still muchos cloudos here.

:(
BBx
04-01-2011, 20:56
lol.

BB x
Fayshun
04-01-2011, 22:39
;D still gutted we missed the last one due to stupid cloud. Froze almost death in a lay-by on a country lane with curtain twitchers thinking we were doggers. Not fun.
Completely unrelated to meteors, but I've recently found out the layby I use for a swift kip on the way home sometimes is a dogging site... :confused:
Pheebs
04-01-2011, 22:43
Completely unrelated to meteors, but I've recently found out the layby I use for a swift kip on the way home sometimes is a dogging site... :confused:

I thought I saw you. I waved and everything!

;D
Fayshun
04-01-2011, 22:46
I thought I saw you. I waved and everything!

;D
Sorry, I was sleeping ;)
Kitten
04-01-2011, 22:57
Completely unrelated to meteors, but I've recently found out the layby I use for a swift kip on the way home sometimes is a dogging site... :confused:

We have one by us just off-road from the forest referred to locally as the 'gay-by'. I'll let you figure out why...
Mark
05-01-2011, 00:20
Eclipse eclipsed here too, as expected. Same as last time (though at least we saw something last time).

Going to join the local astro club on Friday. Then they'll be asked lots of idiotic questions from me about telescopes. Parents want one and I want to try astro-imaging. Two birds, one stone.
Kitten
05-01-2011, 03:26
It's raining (or sleeting, can't tell) quite heavily here, so lots of clouds. Boo.
Fayshun
05-01-2011, 04:25
And in Oxford.:(
Pheebs
05-01-2011, 10:07
THere were lots of stars here last night but it was completely overcast.

Something tells me drinking Port has magical mind powers.
Mark
05-01-2011, 23:13
Would have been a lovely morning for an eclipse today. Oh well. :(

Apparently there was a meteor shown live last night which the folks on the show completely missed. Haven't seen it, but it's recorded so I'm hoping it's LOL-worthy! :)