LocoAko Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Was outside for about an hour, and saw around 40 I'd estimate (before our high clouds moved in). They were in every direction and a few were strikingly bright and long-lasting... beautiful and easily the best meteor shower I've ever seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaoPos Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Hands down best meteor shower. Me and the girl grabbed some hot choc and watched it for a couple mins at a time. Great aphrodisiac those meteors!!! All kidding aside, best shower I've seen in prob my lifetime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skierinvermont Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Saw 3 or 4 over 10 or 15 minutes but this is a really bright area I could barely see the stars. I should have driven somewhere but I think I'd have to go 20 min to get outside the city lights. I've only watched one other meteor shower (tried another once or twice but clouds) and it was maybe 9-12+ years ago and it was spectacular. IIRC there were dozens every minute. Does anybody know when that might have been? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick05 Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 ugh why you guys seeing so many?? i stayed outside for half an hour or so and only saw 5... granted there were a couple of really nice ones--long streaks and really bright... i'm jealous... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 ugh why you guys seeing so many?? i stayed outside for half an hour or so and only saw 5... granted there were a couple of really nice ones--long streaks and really bright... i'm jealous... You are on LI so probably too many lights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xram Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Saw 3 or 4 over 10 or 15 minutes but this is a really bright area I could barely see the stars. I should have driven somewhere but I think I'd have to go 20 min to get outside the city lights. I've only watched one other meteor shower (tried another once or twice but clouds) and it was maybe 9-12+ years ago and it was spectacular. IIRC there were dozens every minute. Does anybody know when that might have been? That was the Leonids which peaked Sunday morning November 18, 2001. That was a truly awesome show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Grr, and here in the land of drought and clear skies it was socked in with clouds all night. Congratulations! I remember the Geminids in 2003 were spectacular- laid on my deck in MA for 30 minutes and must have seen a couple dozen. Edit: No, xram was right- it was the Leonids in 2001 because I was waiting for my hiking buddy to come pick me up for an early hike and it was a Sunday morning in November. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 That was the Leonids which peaked Sunday morning November 18, 2001. That was a truly awesome show. The 2001 Leonid Meteor Storm is pretty tough to beat. It was amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clinch Leatherwood Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Was averaging about 12/13 per 5 minutes last night. There were a few periods without much going on so 100-125 seemed pretty reasonable. It's entirely dark here at night which made an enormous difference in seeing tons of fast, dull streakers. What shocked me about last night was the number of doubles and triples where multiple fragments would enter like a firework. Absolutely the best I've ever seen as I missed 2001. Phenomenal show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettjrob Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Hosed by a cirrus shield that moved in around 9-10pm here. Missed November 2001 due to fog as well. I guess there's always next decade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aslkahuna Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 Had 0.95 in overnight-whoops wrong type of shower-now you know what the Geminids were like in Tucson. The Leonids tend to have big events every 33 years or so. However, the word is that due to perturbations of the parent comet's orbit by Jupiter, major storm activity is not expected until around 2099. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 I am wondering what tonight's hourly rate might be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozarkwx Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 Some really cool meteor photos from Brian Emfinger. With the shorter exposure time of daylight how good (or lucky) are you to capture a meteor at sunrise? Some really good ones in his collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clinch Leatherwood Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 I am wondering what tonight's hourly rate might be. It's not bad. I just had my head out the window. It's not like last night yet but I haven't looked as long. I was probably on pace to see about 20 per hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtlehurricane Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 I was looking earlier this evening and saw a few within 15 minutes, even though I could only see half the sky from my location due to clouds and there are bright city lights everywhere. Rates really crashing now though, down to 40/hour. That's decent for a meteor shower though. http://www.imo.net/ Getting the sense that there weren't many fireball meteors with this one, normal meteors are awesome but fireballs are on another level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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