for all stargazers. At the end of this week there is a massive meteor storm

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/38/20100810/tsc-spectacular-meteor-shower-to-grace-b-98fda55.html

Assuming it's not too cloudy, it'll be out with the deck chair and a nice bottle of plonk.

ill be in deepest darkest staffordshire so ill do what i can to get some pics

which direction is the best to spot them?and dont say upwarsds!

Stargazers should head to the Midlands, the north of England and north-west Scotland for the best views of the annual Perseids meteor shower tonight.

locally id recommend the big field at royden park, we use this a lot for stargazing due to its high treeline reducing light pollution, the other spot locally thats ok is thrustaston/ caldy hill

The shower happens as the Earth passes through debris from the Swift-Tuttle comet, with around 80 to 100 meteors an hour raining down as the small particles collide with and burn up in the atmosphere.

if i remember correctly from last year they were heading from SE-NW, last years display was excellent and we were seeing more than 1 a minute but we also got to see one mega one that lit up the sky and was about 6 inches long to the eye

Looking forward to it. We missed the green comet last month cos it was too cloudy.

i got to see it , but my pics were disastrous

is this tonight then?
original post link says it best to view thursday night/friday morning.
please ignore my ignorance.
cheers

the peak is thursday/friday i think, but u can usually glimpse a few either side of the main days.........

just wish this bloody cloud would clear, all my kit is sorted to try n get some shots over next few days, just need the clear skys

cheers jabber

it's best seen at 1am today apparently (i.e. in a few hours) but it's too cloudy i was planning on watching it

The weather's not looking too good over the next few days. Pity.

Sky starting to clear up here now. In with a chance to see some of them maybe ?

Just been out, we've go a few holes in the clouds but about 80-90% cloud cover

I was out there at five past one, looked up intently, and got a face full of rain

So did anyone get to see the meteor storm? or did you sky plus it lol

I was lay in the garden around midnight for a while couldn't see a thing... but next doors cat came to join me which was nice of him.

Lying in the garden at midnight...too much ale?

nope no ale involved...
I was actually lay in the house with the back door open and my head sticking out because it was raining a bit and very windy...

So, did anyone actually see anything

Saw one through a clear patch around 1.15am, it was red!

That brings up strange mental images....so just your head was in the garden?

Did anyone have any luck with this?

I Went to Thurstaston Common tonight and saw 4 slow moving 'stars', probably planes. I also saw 4 'streakers' which I think were meteors. Very hard to see them though as they move very fast and are v. faint. Just goin to check I was looking in the right area..

i was away fishing in staffordshire from thursday night, cloud cover was virtually 100% on thurs/fri night, but saturday night was awesomly clear, saw 13, one of which was a big un, burnt out for about 7 inches to the eye. Didnt manage to get any pics im afraid, spent a good while trying, but there just werent enough to stand a chance of a shot. Did see 3 satellites pass through tho.
Did a couple of long exposures over the lake . Heres one of them taken around 9.30 i think

Me and TC had a watch for a while on Saturday night but we got accosted by a security guard trying to move us on from a legitimate parking place on a public highway, so didn't fancy leaving the car unattended with a numpty like that floating around.

The last time I saw anything so clear was in Crete.
So beutiful and also reminds us how awesome our Universe is and her bodies wihin are everything but based on time.
Brilliant !!

Welcome to the celetial WikiWirral machine SarahWalsh

That brings up strange mental images....so just your head was in the garden? [/quote]

Yes.. and next doors cat

I thought from the link the peak was last Thursday but Radio 4 said last night was the peak?

Dammb, I missed it!