PeeperStorm on 17/11/2009 at 03:52
Quote Posted by gunsmoke
Leonid Meteor shower!
Wasn't he the guy who played Spock on
Star Trek?
Aerothorn on 17/11/2009 at 10:50
Damn. My college is rural so this thing should be pretty good-looking there, but of course I'm in ever-bright London so no way am I seeing it here. Bummer.
Zontik on 17/11/2009 at 14:24
Total clouds since last week.
Maybe next time...
gunsmoke on 17/11/2009 at 15:44
Yeah, we ended up having like 80% overcast skies early this morning. :(
Namdrol on 17/11/2009 at 22:15
Just stuck my head out the door, pretty much total cloud cover here as well.
Next year.
Nameless Voice on 17/11/2009 at 22:26
Pouring rain all evening here.
Martin Karne on 17/11/2009 at 22:42
A meteorite over my house would be super cool.
242 on 17/11/2009 at 23:01
Quote Posted by Queue
Me too! ...though it's usually the neighbors. Unfortunately, I had to get rid of my rather phenominal (that I had been saving for several years to buy) telescope during a rather nasty period in my life, and now have a Dime Store cheapy. I've thought about building one (grinding my own mirror, ordering lenses, etc.), but never have the time.
I'm pretty familiar with that :) A looooong time ago I built a few (unbelievably crappy) refractors, and was in ecstasy when I was able to see a few Moon craters through the first one (it was so crappy that it barely showed even the largest craters). I was raving about telescopes back then, and it was almost not possible to buy a factory-build one here. Bought many books about home-made telescopes, but missed materials to build a reflector: proper glass pieces, etc. etc. Then, at last, I managed to persuade my parents to buy me a (
http://www.telescope.su/admin/spaw2/uploads/images/32.jpg) decent factory-made 110mm newtonian, it was the only decent model for amateurs that was produced in the USSR.
steo on 17/11/2009 at 23:19
Was out 9-10pm, and the sky was generally clear in Brighton but I still didn't see a single bleedin' shooting star. I'm guessing my timing was wrong? I read it was mainly on the eastern horizon and, despite getting as far away from the lights of the city as one can reasonably walk, I couldn't really see any stars low in the southern/eastern parts of the sky. Could see plenty above and to the north though, which makes me somewhat surprised not to have seen any shooting stars at all. Was it all confined to the eastern horizon, or was my timing just off?
Anyone in the UK see anything?
