Strong Meteor Shower Peaks Monday Night [Geminids, new moon today, peak 2220 GMT, 5:20 p.m. EST]

Yahoo ^ | Dec 10, 2004 | Joe Rao

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Thanks for the ping - are you going outside to take a peak?

[mylife]

Damn it! I forgot! Is it over? I heard they were supposed to be earlier in the evening. what patch of sky?

Damnable light polLution! Idiots racing every where going to wally world ARGGGGG! I have to get me to the desert

Thanks ;^) L0L

[RightWhale]

Overcast. Actually, snow will begin soon. 5 below.

[onyx]

Sort of foggy here... lol.
Have I already missed 'em?

[Howlin]

Not yet; peak time, 2 a.m. to 3 a.m.

[mylife]

Dang it! east N east...worst(strongest) lights in my area

Oh well, Ive seen plenty of amazing celestial events.

Still a shame to miss any of them..

I caught a meteor bisecting the tail of Haley Bop comet on film with night vision in the Mojave at fort Irwin

[Howlin]

Heh!

[berkeleybeej]

In central OK, clear as a bell, temp is 34 heading down to the teens. I've seen a few meteors, one earthgrazer.

I want to know where I can register a complaint about the best meteor showers being late in the year. I want to put in a request to have them in spring and summer.

[NautiNurse]

the best part of the show is just beginning. By 2:00AM ET it should be at its peak overhead.

[mylife]

Thanks I will check prior to bed. The Dang airfield at work is east of me and a major light polluter

[Howlin]

I just did and didn't see a dang thing.

[mylife]

thanks! Getting my settin clothes together now!

[alancarp]

Really cold. But just after sunset, my crew saw a VERY new moon -- really cool with orange glow on the slight cresent.

[dbwz]

Saw a couple around 10:30 PM here on the Jersey coast, one was pretty bright - I didn't think much of it because I will see one every now and again when I go out for my evening walk. We have a beautiful clear night here, so I'll have to pop outside a little later to check things out. Thanks for the heads up!

[kayak]

Thanks for the reminder! I went out for about 10 minutes and saw 5, including one pretty bright, slow one. From here they seem to be emanating from either Orion or the area around the Pleiades (sp?).

[eddie willers]

I'm too old and its too cold, But I stepped out for a smoke and saw five of the boogers.

Four short, one long. Seemed to come more from Orion than Gemini.

[eddie willers]

LOL...we must have stepped out at the same time.

[kayak]

Sounds like it ... :-)

[Howlin]

Dang.....I need to go out again, but my dogs bark the whole time!

[Howlin]

Are you looking east???