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Title: Meteor Showers
Post by: Bromptonboy on January 03, 2012, 03:52:28 PM
If you life on the east coast of the US  :usflag - starting around 03:00 - you can view the Quadrantid meteor shower:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/quadrantid-meteor-shower-2012-shooting-stars-wednesday-dawn/story?id=15279375#.TwOT_dQV3w1 (http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/quadrantid-meteor-shower-2012-shooting-stars-wednesday-dawn/story?id=15279375#.TwOT_dQV3w1)
Title: Re: Meteor Showers
Post by: turtlesrock on January 03, 2012, 06:03:07 PM
*sigh* there's one every august where i regularly go on vacation, and my alarm clock mystically ceases to function on that specific night every year! arg!
Title: Re: Meteor Showers
Post by: Pyrovile on January 04, 2012, 03:01:43 PM
View them nothing, I was using them to bounce 2M WSJT signals to other ham radio operators.  Meteor scatter baby yeah!
Title: Re: Meteor Showers
Post by: Bromptonboy on January 04, 2012, 03:36:55 PM
I got up around 04:00 to go out and see these.  I saw about 7 of them in a few minutes.  It was 12F/-11C outside - not counting the wind chill factor.
Title: Re: Meteor Showers
Post by: turtlesrock on January 04, 2012, 05:55:27 PM
Quote from: Bromptonboy on January 04, 2012, 03:36:55 PM
It was 12F/-11C outside - not counting the wind chill factor.
yeesh! it's been 50 here forever! got any snow?
Title: Re: Meteor Showers
Post by: Bromptonboy on January 04, 2012, 06:48:45 PM
Not yet - thankfully!  Although we had a heavy storm in October if you can imagine.