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GeckoGeek
August 12th, 2007, 06:42 PM
Tonight (Sunday) is supposed to be the peak. Anyone else going out to watch?
LikaNui
August 12th, 2007, 08:20 PM
Tonight (Sunday) is supposed to be the peak. Anyone else going out to watch? It peaks well after midnight, and since I usually get up at 4:30 or 5:00am, I'm not gonna stay up... but I will head outside the minute I wake up since it'll still be dark.
Supposed to be a great view of Mars, too. Hey, if I look closely, maybe I'll see where my ex-wife was born.
:D
TATTRAT
August 12th, 2007, 08:29 PM
Had been watching about the last 3 hours, east coast time.

saw a few good ones, but those city lights are bothersome.

going back out.
lavagal
August 12th, 2007, 08:58 PM
It peaks well after midnight, and since I usually get up at 4:30 or 5:00am, I'm not gonna stay up... but I will head outside the minute I wake up since it'll still be dark.
Supposed to be a great view of Mars, too. Hey, if I look closely, maybe I'll see where my ex-wife was born.
:D

Um...naahhh. I'd have to direct you to the apology thread. Along those lines, though, my X is from uranus. Not YOUR'S!
LikaNui
August 12th, 2007, 09:17 PM
my X is from uranus. Not YOUR'S! Heh. Apostrophe noted. ;)
Reminds me of a bad joke I heard in 6th grade.
Q: What's the similarity between toilet paper and the Starship Enterprise?
A: They're both circling uranus, looking for clingons.

Hey. I warned you it was a bad joke.
Maybe I should go post something in the Apology thread.
:D
acousticlady
August 12th, 2007, 09:35 PM
I am definitely going out!
LikaNui
August 13th, 2007, 08:17 AM
When I went out at 4:30 this morning, almost full cloud cover and some blessings rolling through. No way to see meteors.
:(
GeckoGeek
August 13th, 2007, 09:40 AM
I went to look around midnight. After a few minutes it clouded up. Didn't see nothing. :(
memorylane
August 23rd, 2007, 08:21 AM
I didnt see crap and i am in country, quiet, dark Oklahoma
Leo Lakio
August 23rd, 2007, 08:54 AM
Has anyone been viewing Jupiter recently? Here, it's in the south-southwest sky about an hour after sunset. Through a spotting scope (or good binoculars, if you have steady hands), you can see at least four moons as well.
LikaNui
August 23rd, 2007, 10:27 AM
Through a spotting scope (or good binoculars, if you have steady hands), you can see at least four moons as well. Gregg, how many times have we told you to stop peeking in the windows of the women's dorm?!?

:p