Who's staying up for the meteor shower?

[irwin]

OOO! I am!
The newspaper says this one is gonna be a big one. You don't need a telescope. Should be around 2ish 3ish AM.

[Nija]

that's not why i'm staying up... but i am up...

[sho.gun]

me, i just came back from the garage and got myself a sleeping pad and the sleeping bag. I might just camp outside for the night. And Nija, your stupid wish didn't come true, skies are clear. :D

[brainsmile]

gonna go outside soon

[ArkiStan]

I'm leaving soon with my camera and tripod.

edit: nevermind...I forgot that meteor "showers" were the kind where they fall really really fast... I can't take a picture of that at night...at least with my camera... oh well.

[spigidygak]

Already some some meteors, gonna stay up a lil' longer to see the real good stuff.

[ArkiStan]

Originally posted by spigidygak
Already some some meteors, gonna stay up a lil' longer to see the real good stuff.

yeah I hear there a few now and then. So will the "shower" get really dense later on??

[Memo]

stupid clouds, can't see ****.

[ArkiStan]

Originally posted by UT Memo
stupid clouds, can't see ****.

Hey Memo, are even the meteors bigger in Texas? :)

[brainsmile]

well it's a lot compared to other years. yes this meteor shower is actually annual. I heard at one point they were expecting 1000 per hour

[sho.gun]

f00t, 3am... i'm gonna go outside now I hope I see a lot.

[penguintrix]

my aerospace friends told me that the peak was supposed to be at 2:30,...

just got back. pretty cool,... not what i expected,... but cool nonetheless. :)

[Nija]

sorry i prefer to freeze inside of my house, as opposed to outside, thank you very much

[jujubees]

Ooh, me me me me! :D

Just got back from freezing my butt off in the Berkeley Hills. The huge meteors were amazing!! :wow:

Now, the gabby crackhead sorority girls, I could have done without ...

[sho.gun]

Well what can I say... it was pretty amazing, I've never seen so many before. Actually the only time I've seen a shooting star was on a school trip to mexico. So yeah, I went outside at 3 am, threw down my sleeping bag and proceeded to stare. I'd say I saw well over 150 of em, some are really bright. I also kept on seeing very faint lights moving across the sky, I was like Oh man I just saw an alien spacecraft. But then I realized it coulda been satellites orbiting the earth. But then again who knows...

Before, I decided to just sleep the rest of the night outside, but at around 5:45 or so I thought about my flannel sheets...

[BrewMaster]

I didn't stay up for it. did it just look like a bunch of shooting stars? I hope y'all had fun, I was sleeping.

[Nanotech9]

i also slept. :(

[Burzhui]

Originally posted by ucbstan
I'm leaving soon with my camera and tripod.

edit: nevermind...I forgot that meteor "showers" were the kind where they fall really really fast... I can't take a picture of that at night...at least with my camera... oh well.

Of course you can take a picture of it, and it will look mad good, if you know what you are doing, however you do need a nice camera, something in the lines of at least a simple SLR or we can all hope DLR. What i am saying is you will need to manually adjust your shutter speed and your apreture

[kimchicowboy]

i saw from roof of my apmt building in west LA. dang lounge chairs on the room were all wet so my roommate and i had to stretch our heads back. we saw several of the bright ones i guess and left cuz our necks were hurting. real perrty.

[brain]

Originally posted by kimchicowboy
i saw from roof of my apmt building in west LA. dang lounge chairs on the room were all wet so my roommate and i had to stretch our heads back. we saw several of the bright ones i guess and left cuz our necks were hurting. real perrty.

You should've gone with your other roommates to Malibu to see them.

[kimchicowboy]

shuttup punk.

[evil-will]

damn.. i totally forgot about his..arrgh i was up too :angry: now i gotta wait like what? another thousand years.

[Cheesypuff]

It was really nice to see that meteor shower...it's was not like what the media was making it though.

[MrBehm]

Originally posted by evil-will
damn.. i totally forgot about his..arrgh i was up too :angry: now i gotta wait like what? another thousand years.

More like 1 year. :)

[evil-will]

really? the news was saying that this happens like once every 75 years or something like that.

[El Scorcho]

Originally posted by Burzhui


Of course you can take a picture of it, and it will look mad good, if you know what you are doing, however you do need a nice camera, something in the lines of at least a simple SLR or we can all hope DLR. What i am saying is you will need to manually adjust your shutter speed and your apreture

what woulda been really cool is if you opened the aperture up really high and the shutter speed really long so that not only did you see the meteors... but as they moved they made light streaks on your picture.

You wouldnt have been able to tell what they were i guess... but it woulda looked like a time lapse thing... just on a photograph.


Damn.. i shoulda done that. Except i went out at eleven... didnt see jack... came inside... the news said it was at 2-3... sat down on the couch... fell asleep... woke up at three... forgot... went up to bed... missed it... kicked myself in teh morning for missing it.

[Jenny]

What time was it supposed to be at for us central time zonians? Cause I was up at 3:00 my time and didn't see squat. (Which is ok, since a) it wasn't something I HAD to see & b) when my cousins & I were young, we were camping in the backyard and saw some. :) )

[topane]

I don't know where everyone else is, but here (west of Philadelphia about 20 miles) was a good show. I got up at 4am and a couple of friends came over about 4:15. I'm sort of out in the country so there's no streetlights or neighbors with obnoxious floodlights. We stayed out until about 5:30. I noticed the meteors seemed to come in waves where there was a flurry for a few minutes then none for a few. There were several times where they were coming at a rate of 22 per minute (yes, us nerds counted). Actually saw two explode--made a really cool flash in the sky. It was cold but I am very glad I got my butt out of bed.

[Memo]

Originally posted by ucbstan


Hey Memo, are even the meteors bigger in Texas? :)

They might be, couldn't see cause the clouds are surely bigger ;)

[brain]

Originally posted by kimchicowboy
shuttup punk.

No Matsuhisa for you. :bonk:

[kimchicowboy]

heheh. freakinfreak. i was j/k. :cheers: <--suprema. hehehe.

[brain]

Originally posted by kimchicowboy
heheh. freakinfreak. i was j/k. :cheers: <--suprema. hehehe.

I should've picked up a case of that yesterday. mmm.... El Salvadorean beer.