perseid metorite shower peaks this weekend. Who is going to watch it and where.

Will be watching from a chaise lounge on my back deck this year. Out in the country, very few lights to interfere with viewing.

Best view ever- had a flight from Boston to Virginia, flight rolled down the runway at 11:50 PM, and I was sitting on Port side of aircraft, window seat (facing the incoming shower) View from 39,000 ft is AMAZING!

 

I am off work Saturday night and Sunday night. I'm going to go side out in my backyard and see what I can see. There are no lights to interfere, the weather is supposed to be beautiful.

Thanks for the information.

 

In fact, I think I'll drag my bathtub out in the backyard that night and sit in the tub and watch the meteor shower.......you know, kind of like those stupid Cialis commercials.

 

No fences dividing our yards. It's always been a kind of unwritten rule. To be in my backyard is like being in a very, very big open area with a smattering of trees and beautiful landscaping. It's always been this way. I bought my house in 1986 and the seller mentioned the fence thing. Of course, he said do what you want.......but I never did fence it in.

Someday I'll post pictures of all our backyards that merge together. It's really rather nice.

Anyway, why would they peek at me when there will be a beautiful meteor shower? I have some goofy neighbors who would probably drag their tubs out there, too, and we'd all sit in a long line of bathtubs, holding hands from tub to tub and watching the meteor shower.

 

Due to roation of earth, greatest number of meteors after midnight. And yeah, as said, NE sky. One of the few skywatching events you do not need a scope or binocs.

 

And Winds- you KNOW...............

 

Haha......you have no idea what you are asking for, do you?

I live in an old town. Our 'blocks' are not two strips of houses back to back. Our 'block' is like this......../_/ sort of (except not lopsided). There are 5 houses along that 'bottom stretch' of the block. Mine is smack dab in the middle of that bottom line. There is a large stretch of land behind my house where all the back yards meet. When the neighborhood was filled with young families with kids, the kids would all play in everyone's yard back there. No one complained. It was wonderful raising kids where I live. Not much turnover in this neighborhood. Now we are a bunch of 'oldies' who talk about our grandkids when we meet outside.

 

I just got back in and didn't see anything. I was in an old, dark factory parking lot on the edge of town. I noticed there was another car there and I parked away from it but I kept an eye on it. After about 10 minutes I see a man walking towards my car. It turned out to be our night duty officer. We chatted about not seeing anything in the sky at all. I went back home.