Perseids and lightning, very very frightening...

[Jonk]

Well this is odd, cooling down in the garden, looking NE and in the west part of the sky there are flashes of incoming lightning, and in the east part of the sky, the odd meteor!

Amazing, nature is.

[Guest]

Love the title! 🤣

[Helen]

I've been trying to get my meteor cam working - thought it might do double duty tonight!!!  But.... came to check the laptop its connected to, which is iin the Obs, just at the wrong moment and am now stranded (unless I want to get completely soaked!!)  Earlier on the light show was amazing with little rain, now its the reverse.

Helen

[Jonk]

2 minutes ago, Helen said:

now stranded (unless I want to get completely soaked!!) 

Photos or it didn’t happen! 😆

[Helen]

10 minutes ago, Jonk said:

Photos or it didn’t happen! 😆

 

[Helen]

The meteor camera is getting properly baptised 🥺. Not sure it will survive!!!

[aderyn]

Perhaps that was the same light show we could see to the east around dusk - very impressive. No rain yet, the occasional very bright meteor, quite a lot of patchy cloud and another light show to the south.

Hope your camera copes!

Louise

 

[Helen]

5 minutes ago, aderyn said:

Perhaps that was the same light show we could see to the east around dusk - very impressive. No rain yet, the occasional very bright meteor, quite a lot of patchy cloud and another light show to the south.

Hope your camera copes!

Louise

 

Thanks Louise - the lightshow was amazing!  Now just torrential rain - thankfully it eased slightly so I have escaped from the Obs (phew).  The camera will have to wait until tomorrow (I've left the power on for now as it has a dew heater and hoping that might help!)

Helen

[JamesF]

Sat outside this evening watching the sky flickering like a crazy thing with the light of distant thunderstorms.  Saw some absolute crackers of meteors though.  Not a huge number, but most that I did see were very bright and visible over ten degrees or more of the sky.

I've got total cloud cover now though, so I think it's time to call it a night.

James

[Jonk]

11 hours ago, Helen said:

The camera will have to wait until tomorrow

Sooooo how did it go?!

[Helen]

I escaped.... am about to test the camera, but I proved last night that it responds to flashes, but didn't seem to capture anything else (so sadly no lightning) 🥺  Am about to google how to set up and focus a watec....

[Jonk]

There’s always something to learn from a test.

Even if it’s peeing down!