For late setter's and early riser's - Perseid Meteor Show to commense

[Artful]

Perseid meteor shower will occur tonight through Friday morning. Best viewing will be after midnight tonight. They are predicting a massive 200 meteor per hour /sarc. Which turns out to be one meteor ever 3 minutes or so. So if you happen to be an early bird with good viewing weather, why not step outside after midnight and see if you can see any meteors. You never know what you might see.

[corbinace]

Midnight where? I just saw two at 2325 pacific

[badbob454]

saw one brighter than the moon a few minutes ago

[Silfield]

I went out at midnight and again at 2am and it was cloudy. Oh well, there is always next year.
Did get to see a couple of nice deer in the garden thou.

[w5pv]

Our skies were overcast and that cause me to miss the event.

[DerekP Houston]

Our skies were overcast and that cause me to miss the event.

Cloudy skies last night for us as well, heard a storm rolling in after dinner That would explain the dogs barking early in the morning though.

[bubba.50]

clear skies here. sat out from 2:00 'til 2:30 & didn't see a one.

[Kestrel4k]

[...] They are predicting a massive 200 meteor per hour /sarc. Which turns out to be one meteor ever 3 minutes or so.
3 meteors/min, not 3 minutes/meteor. :)

I got up early @ 3:45 this morning for them and watched until 5 AM.
Not sure how many total I saw, am certain it was well over a hundred.
Twice, I saw 6 meteors in a 60-second period. :)

For those who are still interested, early Saturday morning is forecast to be nearly as good.
The moon is setting around 1:AM Pacific Time, so early mornings should be better than late evenings for that reason as well.

Best of luck,

[MaryB]

Clouded out so I bounced radio signals off the ionized trails instead!

[tdoyka]

clear skies here. sat out from 2:00 'til 2:30 & didn't see a one.

i did the midnite to two shift, i didn't see any either

[Three44s]

I fell asleep at the 'puter and awoke at about 12:30 am and saw one ....... none reflected off my pillow after that however. We are having clear skies but I farm and ranch ...... sleep is too precious!

Best regards

Three 44s