Shooting stars!

[andygates]

It's Leonids week so book some clear skys for Tuesday night. To quote New Scientist,

"Earth will cut across the first such stream around 0900 GMT on 17 November, an event that is expected to produce dozens of meteors an hour. But the spectacle will reach its peak between 2100 and 2200 GMT, as Earth passes through two debris trails left by Tempel-Tuttle in 1466 and 1533."

I think it's utterly great how we can say that these lights in the sky came from that snowball when it visited back in the Age of Princesses. That's awesome.

Comments

[shifty-176.livejournal.com]

It's also groovy (to me, at least) that I was born during the largest Leonid storm. :)

[despaer.livejournal.com]

Keep an eye out for the Geminids (15/12) and Quadrantids (04/01) as they have a bit more weight behind them, especially the Geminids. Unfortunately much like the Leonids they are mid winter so usually cloudy and always cold.

Leonids are probably not worth staying up for imo as they are only about 15/hr (thats total you might see, not what you can actually pick in a light polluted sky) outside their max years