Yep, it's getting to be that time of year. You can find out more information about it here
I was fortunate to see two parallel earthgrazers one late night while driving down I-70. They were so large and moving so slow across the tree tops that I was sure they were alien spaceships landing.
Good times!
Don
Posted by Rod Kissinger on August 1, 2009 at 11:00 AM
Thanks Don-Time to get the Mutha Hubba Tent out with 360 view-and more importantly no-seeum mesh to keep those pesky mosquitoes away!
I wonder how an "off the shelf" digital camera is different from all the rest? (as was quoted in the article) His photo was rather blurry and noisy - I guess if you buy a digital camera that is sitting on the floor instead of up on the shelf this will not happen?
I know everyone gets excited each year about this but really, you can see these shooting stars all year long, and even up to a peak of "one per minute" would be about average on a typical night around here for me just about anytime -- perhaps the whiskey I drink is better than others, or just more of it? I've only ever seen one really terrific Perseid shower, and that was at 11,000 feet in the Wind River Mountains in Wyoming (with no whiskey involved) - looked kind of like a giant sparkler up in the sky with probably 100 or more shooting stars a minute going off - now that would have made a very nice photo but I didn't have a camera, just a fly rod. Most shooting star photos look little more than a scratch on the film, ha!
I didn't catch the "off the shelf" comment the first time I read it. Strange comment. My camera came in a big brown truck, I wonder how it compares. August in Arkansas usually means humidity, haze and not the clearest nights. A couple of weeks ago when we had that awesome cool front come through I camped at Grinders Ferry right by Hwy 65 on the Buffalo. We were seeing probably 2-4 a minute, and my whiskey was cheap that night. It was to the point that I got tired of watching them. They didn't really show up in any photos though.
Tim that Wyoming show sounds awesome, best I have seen was last September at 9,000 feet in the Pecos Wilderness in NM, but it wasn't really anything special.
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3 repliesI was fortunate to see two parallel earthgrazers one late night while driving down I-70. They were so large and moving so slow across the tree tops that I was sure they were alien spaceships landing.
Good times!
Don
Hope to see some photos from the group.
Rod
I know everyone gets excited each year about this but really, you can see these shooting stars all year long, and even up to a peak of "one per minute" would be about average on a typical night around here for me just about anytime -- perhaps the whiskey I drink is better than others, or just more of it? I've only ever seen one really terrific Perseid shower, and that was at 11,000 feet in the Wind River Mountains in Wyoming (with no whiskey involved) - looked kind of like a giant sparkler up in the sky with probably 100 or more shooting stars a minute going off - now that would have made a very nice photo but I didn't have a camera, just a fly rod. Most shooting star photos look little more than a scratch on the film, ha!
Tim that Wyoming show sounds awesome, best I have seen was last September at 9,000 feet in the Pecos Wilderness in NM, but it wasn't really anything special.