Asteroid Showers Tonight and Tomorrow night
 

You should be able to see as many as 60 per minute if you are away from light sources. With a new moon this year, viewing is predicted to be better than usual.

Watch for falling rocks!

Redrob

Sounds like it could end up being a great date...

thanks for letting me know, add some wine, a blanket & a girl on the balcony & it will make for a good night

thanks for the info....looks like it'se to dust off my telescope. I think that Casa Nova has the right idea..........

Note to self: Call and make date for "asteroid showers"

pretty dark out this way, we're almost at the foothills here so we also have better elevation...gonna have to go sit outside and play on the laptop there.

The TV said it would be best to go out after 11pm CST.

Man that sounds very cool to watch and photograph.

A telescope is useless. Eyes are the only thing you need.

hey Redrob these "showers" are caused by COMETS not asteroids.

Fantastic post

Supposed to be good tonight.

I will go to the countryside to see them perfectly

Someone should post some footage of this ;)

Awesome thanks for the heads up! Gives me a reason to venture out of my cave ;)

I have seen it before and it is incredible, I am hoping for clear skies tonight.

Are you sure it's not supposed to be 60 per hour?

Can you see these anywhere in the US or what?

well i will get the bong ready

My hot tub is always a great place for watching shooting stars, it sounds like a good excuse for a party tonight

Should be peaking about now.

Cool, thanks!

i almost forgot!

That looks nice.....i have seen that before.

Meteor showers typically don't transfer to film well. :2 cents:

I didnt see anything here in FL

At 1.00 EU time I saw one for a split second. Very disappointing. :(

Yeah... living in L.A. - without the time to drive an hour or two North this weekend - I didn't even bother trying.

Light pollution probably washed it all out.

Hope some GFY'ers got a good view, though.

I just saw like a flash of something moving, is that supose to be it?

K I was just out for about a half hour, saw about 10 of them looking towards the northeast pretty high up, so if anyone wants to see they are still going on

They've been okay, not fantastic, but the meteors are nicely bright blue and moving fast. Saw about ten decent ones over about 40 minutes. A nice night, warm, just a bit of high hazy clouds that you could pretty much see thru clearly after the eyes adapted.

I was glad I took the time to watch them.

Time was between 4am and 5am.

I was going to stay up and try to watch it but in a big city it is nearly impossible to get a good view of these things.

60 per minute? woah that's so many!