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[ambientskies]

Perseids

After midnight you should get to see around a 100 per hour

EarthSky's meteor shower guide for 2010 | Astronomy Essentials | EarthSky

Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks August 12-13th, 2010 | Supporting IYA 2009 The International Year of Astronomy

[PeteB]

Blimey, is it that time of year again already???? Time to dust off the mozzy repellent and set up the deck chairs

[Andy_P]

August 12 and 13, 2010 Perseids
And when we say August 12 or 13, we mean the morning hours after midnight … not that night.

I always get that wrong....

[Pyro Pete]

Mmmm... drove out to the middle of nowhere and lasted until 1AM until I got bored. Saw about a dozen or so in an hour, couple of nice ones, but certainly not very exciting. A thunderstorm off the coast of Belgium was more interesting, some massive flashes from that lighting up over the sea.

[ambientskies]

Counted 16 good ones from 10.30 - 11pm & lots of little fast jobby's, also lots of satellites... Did see 2 trains in parallel going SSW at 11.30, never seen that before Hopefully clear skys tonight.

[PeteB]

I saw a dozen or so between 10.30 - 11ish, though i was in the city so probably only caught the brightest, even so it seemed better than recent years..... i'll be back out again tonight in a more rural setting so bring it on!

[Andy_P]

We were camping in Devon and had beautiful dark skies.

The hedgehog (see other topic) had us up half the night on Wednesday-Thursday so I must have spent half an hour or so watching and we saw quite a few, but nothing spectacular.
Best one was on the Tuesday night and was going the wrong way to be a Perseid, but it was a real long-lasting, slow one that got half way across the sky. Made me go "wow" which none of the ones on the next night did.

[RocketRev]

100% cloud cover in my area..... and never mind thunderstorms over Belgium, we had our own! Severe weather warning was out for Manchester and there were floods in some parts. Tonight looks like being more of the same.

[ambientskies]

Yes indeed, we got clouded out & not a hedgehog to be seen!

[Masterchief]

Travelled up to white horse hill (uffington) to watch this on thursday night, stayed up there till around 1.30am joined by a good 50 - 100 other people!

Was quite impressive actually, some of the best were really low down in the sky, leaving a nice trail for .5 - 1s, 1 massive one around 1.15am actually seemed to light the area around us!

Counted in all (over 3 hours looking W - S) 62 mainl quick streaks but some good strong strikes against the atmosphere

Also no hedgehogs, one bloody annoying owl.