Perseids 11/08/2012

[Mr Flibble]

Just a quick heads up on the big show of the year. I know its highly unlikely that it'll be a clear night considering how shockingly bad the summer has been so far, but you never know , stranger things have happened and it may just be clear.......The moon doesn't rise until about 1am and the peak falls on a saturday night so it may be quite good this year.

[Matthew]

I was looking to organise an observing session on that date but I didn't want to jinx it.

[stevetynant]

well - weather looks like it may be improving from Friday according to the Welsh news last night so this weekends observing session could be a good- fingers crossed for August- be nice to see the dark skies again.

[texaspete1973]

Fingers crossed

[garethmob]

providing my new home dosent get stolen i'll be at an event around the perseids even if its with the dslr to photo them

[Gary23]

From reading news etc. the weather is meant to be getting better in general, hopefully it brings clear skies with it. Some warm sunny days wouldn't go amiss before the autumn arrives though

[Mountain View]

Sounds great would like to meet up if weather ok

As Mat says, best not to jinks it by setting any arrangements just yet, will keep an eye on this thread

[Photosbykev]

I think the peak is on the Sunday evening into Monday morning but there should be plenty of activity on the Saturday evening

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[Mr Flibble]

Just been reading up on this in SaN magazine and it says the peak this year is actually during the daytime - between 13:00 and 15:30 BST on sunday 12th august .

So it looks like we'll miss the best bit but meteors will still hit either side of this time, i.e. the optimum times being after 01:00 BST on the nights of the 11/12th and 12/13th (after 01:00 because this is when the Earth will have turned on its axis enough to hit the meteors head on).

[Photosbykev]

Saturday or Sunday looks good then

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[Mr Flibble]

I reckon its gonna be a back garden, sunlounger, sleeping bag and beer job