perseids meteor shower 2010

[Vicki Roberts]

Hi everyone

I've made the mistake of booking a holiday to ibiza whilst the perseids meteor shower reaches its peak!

Does anyone know of any Astronomy Groups in ibiza that might be watching the shower or know of any star parties that might be taking place.

I have tried google but just get results of DJ tracks and searching for stars - as in the person!!!

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you

[pete_l]

I'm not familiar with Ibiza, but at a guess I'd say anywhere around here would be suitable. Just borrow a sun lounger and take a hire car up ito the hills.

39.045133,1.491394 - Google Maps

[LukeSkywatcher]

The only thing you need to observe meteors with are your eyes. I was planning to be in the Canaries for the event but my dog has to be vaccinated for kennel cough 14 days before i put her in kennels. So now i am heading off to Lanzarote on the 14 Aug. I will miss the main event but might catch a few late stragglers.

[spike87]

These meteor showers were featured in the last Sky At Night programme on the BBC. I really hope the weather stays clear this year, I always get quite excited but the clouds always come rolling in.

[Lunar93]

Saw an early perseid last night at about 11.53pm. Magnitude +2 , and quite faint , shot eastwards towards the moon

[onmehedson]

Saw 3 meteors in a 2 minute spell last night... really short and swift and the second one left a trail for a brief moment... I luv these shooting stars!!

[Llamanaut]

i saw a huge one last night around midnight, i swore it left a trail! probably my eyes though, very bright however, if thats what the perseids are like bring them on i say, next week im going to use my canon 450d on bulb attached to my eq3 to capture some...quick question.... with clock drive or without?

[Beyond_Vision]

No need for the mount to be driven just use the widest angle lens you have and set the exposure for around 10 to 20 seconds and keep taking until you get lucky .

Regards

Kevin

[spike87]

I didn't know they'd already started. I thought it starts around the 6th August. Another cloudy night tonight so not much chance of seeing any!

[stampy10000]

I shall be off to France for 10 days on the 27th, will I see anything, or is that too late?

We had some good views from the garden there last year, but I can't remember when we there!

Thanks

[Starman]

The Perseids start around the 23rd of July and keep going until the 20th August. Rates are low for this period though, only really picking up 4ish nights before until 4ish nights after maximum, which this year occurs on the night of August 12/13.

A bright meteor may leave a ghostly glowing trail after it has passed. The technical name for this is a train - i.e. the fast moving streak is the meteor's trail and a glowing remnant of the trail is known as the meteor's train.

There's another sky at night on tonight if anyone's interested - it's on at 19:30 and more details about it can be found here:

BBC - BBC One Programmes - The Sky at Night, Monster Star

This one should contain more of me and Paul rabbiting on about the Perseids

[LukeSkywatcher]

Woohoo !!!

So i should be able to still see some in Lanzarote from the 14th.

[Starman]

What a lot of people don't realise Paul, is that one of the reasons that this is such a great time to see meteors is that there are loads of other showers going on at the same time too. You've got the Alpha Cygnids, Capricornids, Delta Aquarids, Piscids Australids, Alpha Capricornids, Iota Aquarids and Kappa Cygnids all throwing meteors into the mix as well as the Perseids! Ok, most of these are weak showers but taken together, they certainly up the probability of seeing something during a watch!

[LukeSkywatcher]

Thats true Pete. Lots of minor showers happening about now. Have not seen ANY due to clouds. July/August really IS meteor season.

[Spock]

Just seen a beauty about 15 mins ago... At about 23:43 there was a moderate short meteor heading SW then seconds after a long beaut with intense train heading NE!!!

They were the only 2 I saw mind you in 30 mins. Talk about buses

[@@.]

right now, 22.54 BST, things are just begining to improve. just poped out to check visibility. still quite a bit of broken patchy cloud around but good large areas of clear sky and 2 decent, very fast, meteors through the back end of cygnus one after the other within a couple of mins keep your fingers crossed

[mattrus]

cloudy in leicester now oh well seen nothing before cloud over , going to set alarm clock for early start to see if its clearer then

[bravo9zero]

It's cloudy in Newcastle as well!

I'm staying up till about 3, hope it clears by then

Was clear skies last year!

[AndrewT]

Its a little patchy where i am in the northwest but hopefully they may be a few clear spells later on

[insomnia]

Just saw 3 shooting stars and an iridium flair, all within minutes

[@@.]

oops!! make that 21.54 :oops:

[bravo9zero]

I'm starting to see a few clear patches in the sky now, should be ok at midnight.

[AndrewT]

Cant believe the weather where i am in the northwest just blanket cloud haven't seen a thing yet

[oakwell]

i aint seen owt either here in barnsley south yorks but a bot of cloud about. some clear patches coming though

[insomnia]

Just watching the skies through bedroom window and 2 Chinese lanterns come floating past