Meteor shower approaches in time for holiday

[Earth_First]

Source: CNN



(CNN) - The cosmos has aligned, quite literally, for families, space geeks and insomniacs alike, as the Earth is set to intercept a new meteor shower late Friday into Saturday.

The scientists who discovered the cosmic debris say the Camelopardalid shower could be "significant."

Some forecasts show 200 to 1,000 meteors an hour between 2 and 4 a.m. Eastern Time on Saturday.

If you're having trouble seeing it, or if you want to join other amateur astronomers across the country as it happens, NASA's website will host a live chat from 11 p.m. Friday until 3 a.m. EDT Saturday, as well as offering a live view of the skies over Huntsville, Alabama.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/22/us/meteor-shower/

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Live stream link: https://www.slooh.com/

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. I am heading out 2 hours (midnight EST) - clear in Raleigh - will

bring my android and do some updates here on how it looks.

[miyazaki]

2. And it's cloudy in the Socal Desert

with spotty showers.
Well, hope it clears up. Tons of traffic driving out here to Joshua Tree National Park
where the stargazers like to go.

[Munificence]

3. 3 kids and Wife

are out on the lawn on a blanket as I speak. I was out there bu tit's cloudy...tried to talk them into coming in for an hour as the clouds will be gone (looked at radar).

Is supposed to be a pretty impressive shower and maybe a "storm" I've seen predictions of up to 400 meteors per hour.

Imagine back 10K years when primitive man had this happen...wonder what thoughts ran through their heads?

[Iliyah]

4. What time?

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. peak is estimated to be 2-4 AM EST. But this is its debut, so there is uncertainty!

[veness]

6. Thanks! Other live stream links:

http://www.virtualtelescope.eu/webtv/

http://www.astrowebtv.org

[Cha]

7. Thanks Earth First..

[pinto]

8. Got up to take a look. Unfortunately, the marine layer is in. Standard this time of year.

I'll check it out on line.

[Thor_MN]

9. Took a look, but cloudy to the north plus urban light pollution

Didn't see jack, watched until my bare feet got cold, went back to bed.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. Popped outside about 3:30 am

And stared in vain.... It had rained overnight but by that time, the western part of the sky had cleared (with overcast still far east). But I think I saw what might have been it - coming from a small patch in the sky just to the right of North (when facing North), where the patch seemed to suddenly go through what I'm calling a "tiny galactic fireworks display", with multiple "flashes" (I counted about 14 in a couple minutes), along with one brief short streak. It was as if I was looking at the meteors "head-on" so no streak or they were exploding way up in the atmosphere before coming down much further). Either that or there was some space battle going on up there.

I also saw a moving light way up high traveling E--> W that eventually winked out. That one might have been a satellite (I just checked and the ISS did do a flyover of my area around the time I was out there but it would have appeared in a different spot and moved in the opposite direction from what I saw).

[truthisfreedom]

11. Was clear in southern Minnesota, and we kept our eyes peeled from midnight to 3am. Nada.

Didn't happen.

[jwirr]

12. It was clear here in NE MN also but the times I looked there was nothing but a beautiful roof of

stars to see.

[denbot]

13. I was in western NY (Johnstown) and of course it was cloudy and drizzling.

Got up at 02:30 to roll to Chicago, the first thing I did was look up and cuss. Back home my wife got up around midnight in the Los Angeles area (Manhattan Beach) and it was overcast there too!
Sigh...