Alert - shooting stars over Hampshire tonight (Friday 12th August)

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There is going to be a shower of shooting stars and space debris over Hampshire tonight (Friday 12th August) - up 200 shooting stars per hour. This should be visible from around 10pm.
See you there - all as one under the same sky!
 
RaphaelSamad said:
There is going to be a shower of shooting stars and space debris over Hampshire tonight (Friday 12th August) - up 200 shooting stars per hour. This should be visible from around 10pm.
See you there - all as one under the same sky!
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And over Somerset where I am and the rest of the UK and a lot of other places.................
It's the Perseids - they happen every year at around this date, and they can be good. Start looking as soon as it's dark. They appear to radiate from Perseus, hence the name. They don't, of course. If you're going to look in one direction don't look at Perseus. The big bright 'wow' ones will travel a long way very quickly and leave a brief 'tail', so if you're looking too close to Perseus you'll miss them. I saw a few last night over a half hour or so period around midnight, but I have to say they weren't terribly impressive. I'd have stayed out a lot longer but my neck objects. There's cloud on a front moving south this evening so the further south the better.
 
Thank you for your further clarification Jannyfox. I just saw it on local news and thought that I should share this opportunity. Your explanation and advice is much better!
 
Perseid shower not just above Hants. Anywhere in the Northern hemisphere.

Ha, Jan beat me to it. :cool: It's as Earth passes through the trail left by Comet Swift-Tuttle.
 
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Quite a few over Kent last night.
I love watching for them.
 
Sat in my back garden for two hours last night... on the sun lounger under a warm blanket.
Didn't count how many I saw between midnight and 2am ... but it was way over a hundred, on an estimate.
Most were just small streaks.. but there were tens of really bright ones that streaked across the Milky Way (lucky enough to live in an dark spot in the UK)... few ended with a really bright flash.

First I thought that I should take the camera out to try to capture something... but then, I thought that maybe this once, I should just enjoy the show and not worry about if I get a nice photo :-)

Hoping the sky stays clear tonight as well.. it's blanket time again if it does!!

Enjoy your outing!!!
 
GooGaBu said:
Sat in my back garden for two hours last night... on the sun lounger under a warm blanket.
Didn't count how many I saw between midnight and 2am ... but it was way over a hundred, on an estimate.
Most were just small streaks.. but there were tens of really bright ones that streaked across the Milky Way (lucky enough to live in an dark spot in the UK)... few ended with a really bright flash.

First I thought that I should take the camera out to try to capture something... but then, I thought that maybe this once, I should just enjoy the show and not worry about if I get a nice photo :)

Hoping the sky stays clear tonight as well.. it's blanket time again if it does!!

Enjoy your outing!!!
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You can still get some nice shots and sit there and enjoy the show, that's the joy with long exposures and remote shutters :)

Perseid meteor shower 12th Aug 16 by Jim, on Flickr
 
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Cracking photo Jim. Where was that? We had partial cloud but two of us managed to see about 10 meteors in an hour or so, so similar to my tally on my own on Thursday night when it was much clearer. They may had been better into the early hours of Friday but it hurts to watch for too long.
 
Cheers guys :). That was off the south coast of the Isle of Wight.
 
odd jim said:
You can still get some nice shots and sit there and enjoy the show, that's the joy with long exposures and remote shutters :)

eid meteor shower 12th Aug 16 by Jim, on Flickr
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I know... just this time felt like watching it with no distractions (despite long exposures being bit more 'relaxing') ..
And even if I do love capturing all sorts of moments.. sometimes it is nice to leave the camera/phone away and just enjoy things.

Nice photo by the way :-) !!
 
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