Meteor Showers

[Bromptonboy]

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

[turtlesrock]

*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!

[Pyrovile]

View them nothing, I was using them to bounce 2M WSJT signals to other ham radio operators.  Meteor scatter baby yeah!

[Bromptonboy]

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.

[turtlesrock]

It was 12F/-11C outside - not counting the wind chill factor.

yeesh! it's been 50 here forever! got any snow?

[Bromptonboy]

Not yet - thankfully!  Although we had a heavy storm in October if you can imagine.