Leonids shower

[Sunwind]

Leonid Meteor Shower: Best Sky Show Tonight

During the 2009 Leonid meteor shower, you may see anywhere from 30 to 300 shooting stars an hour, depending on whether you're in the right place to see tonight's showy peak, experts predict. With the highest number of meteors streaking across the skies around 4:45 p.m. ET on November 17, the full Leonids peak will be effectively invisible for viewers in North America and Europe.

shame i'm at work tonight

[Beyond_Vision]

Isn't the peak tomorrow the 17th into the 18th.

Regards

Kevin

[Jupiter Martin]

Yea The peak should be tomorrow around 9:50pm if clear you could see up to 100 hour praying for clear night. They will seem to come from the consellation Leo

[Jupiter Martin]

Leo Rises above the Horizon around 11:50 PM In London

[Sunwind]

oh good I thought when it was talking about the 17th it meant early morning as in 12:01am, hope it's not cloudy and then I can make a night of it, been awful since I got my scope.

[Jupiter Martin]

It has been awful of late cloud wise. Leo don't rise to late tonight so the peak will be below the Horizon around 10pm tonight but should be able to see a bit later on. Well thats what I am hoping for. Im a newbie so just going by what my starry night pro is telling me

[George Jones]

Clouded out here. It was clear when I went to bed, and I got up early (5:49 now) to have a look at the Leonids, Mars, and Saturn.

[Ben478]

Excellent! I shall have a look tonight! I'm not home until around 10pm from work, so my timing should be good for some viewing after midnight.

[jgs001]

If I've got my bearings right, you should be able to see some around Auriga (you don't want to look at the radiant, but about 30 degrees away from it) at about peak time tonight... if of course you can actually see the sky

[cloud9]

anyone seen anything yet?

[Prizeonion]

Nothing here at the moment. Patchy cloud, and I've only seen one in the past hour, and that was going the wrong direction so wasn't a leonid!

[Jupiter Martin]

Clouds just rolled in thick here dont think I will be seeing anything tonight

[yeti monster]

Cloudy here.................

[Ghost66]

patchy cloud here with the lights shining off them makes it hard to see anything

[themos]

cloudy here in Oxford, too, I can see two stars in the gaps. Not a single meteor seen as yet. Also the wind is up so don't expect much from the tripod mounted camera...

[Ben478]

Was nice and clear around 11pm in my part of Kent but the rain quickly moved in, didn't see anything.

[Jupiter Martin]

Just seen one about 1.30am not with the scope but naked eye sort of South East roughly. No shower though sort of mid way between Orin and Mars. Off to bed happy or saw something saw mars for the first time tonight. Need a bigger scope its tiny all in all had a great nights viewing gave me a buzz.

[Sunwind]

clouds+raining here, Merseyside

[Leegsi]

Didnt see anything either.

Lots of clouds

[themos]

Shot a whole bunch of pics of clouds and Gemini region. I don't think I caught anything.