Perseid meteor shower [MRG]

[Acid Rush]

Just wondering if you guys know which area in Calgary is the best (or just a good) place to view the meteor shower. It starts at around 9pm until early the following morning. Thanks.

[Cliche]

Away from the city. Ideally if you find a dark enough spot, you can see the occaisional streak of something or other as it comes down. Although the installation of the lower power streetlights helps out, light from the city still cuts down on the chance of seeing anything...(Good if you have one of those camera's with a long exposure time)

[phaneuf_train]

Is it in the Eastern skies?

[Jayems]

damn, i didn't know about this... would have tried to get some shots.

[chris lindberg]

I live in North Bay Ontario and I didn't see anything tonight between midnight and 1 AM.

[BlAcKNoVa]

It's cloudy and even rained for a bit where I am. No meteor shower for me

[MagicallyAdept]

Did anyone watch the Perseid meteor shower last night? It was pretty great to watch especially as i had never seen a shooting star before.

I live in the suburbs of north London, Uk so seeing watching the stars is hard. When we do a get a clear night, light pollution from such a big city makes only the brightest objects visable.

I read about the event on yahoo yesterday and thought it sounded interesting so at about 10pm last night, me, my brother and my neighbour went into my garden and lied on the grass on a few pillows and gazed skywards so we could see as much of the sky as possible. It was a slightly chilly night so we put on jeans and coats and just got comfortable lying on the hard ground. After about 30 minutes our eyes had adjusted and i could see thousands of stars due to a luckily clear night. We was out there for a 3 or so hours and witnessed about 200 meteors streaking across the sky. Some were tiny lines, overs blazed a trail across the whole sky and i must say it was pretty damn amazing. After you have seen one the fun is kind of over as they all look the same but the feeling of relaxation looking at the stars got us onto conversations about far away galaxies, space travel, alternate dimensions, aliens, government conspiracies, religion, the big bang, black holes and basically everything and nothing. It was a truly remarkable night. I am really into science but i was with 2 guys whose conversations usually emcompass rock music, football and women.

All in all the meteors were amazing but the feeling of relaxation and self awareness about how small we really are in the scale of things was total bliss. If i ever get stressed out i will just spend the night star gazing to make myself calm again and i really recommend it to anyone.

Cheers,

Magic.

[West Karma]

nm

[worth]

The perseids have been going on for about 2 weeks or so, it's just the best night to view them was the past two nights. that was when it was at its peak. so yes, you may still be able to view them tonight.

[metal_geek]

It was too cloudy in southern calgary for me to watch um last night .

Although I was out at about midnight and did see the new hawks helicopter flying circles basically around my house. Then BAM!.. this giant beam of light comes down lighting up the ground a block or so away from where I was standing.

Three things
1) That helicopter is LOUD!!!!
2) It has no lights on it at all, in "operation" mode
3) That beam of light is VERY VERY bright!

I missed out on the meteor shower, but still got a good show from above!!
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