[meteorite-list] Perseids Tonight

From: Richard Kowalski <damoclid_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:23:02 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <326720.15740.qm_at_web33904.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Now I should also say that it may be "tomorrow night" for those of you who live ahead of Universal Time, in the Eastern Hemisphere...

As I write this the date and time is 00:20 UT on August 12th, though the local time here in Tucson is 17:20 MST on August 11th, , so the "standard peak" is still 18 hours away, during the daytime "tomorrow"...

Yes it can be confusing, which is why astronomers use UT (Universal Time) so we don't miss events because we live our daily lives on "local" time...

--
Richard Kowalski
http://fullmoonphotography.net
IMCA #1081
--- On Tue, 8/11/09, Jan Bartels <meteorites at online.nl> wrote:
> From: Jan Bartels <meteorites at online.nl>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Perseids Tonight
> To: "Richard Kowalski" <damoclid at yahoo.com>, Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Tuesday, August 11, 2009, 5:16 PM
> .......that's it !!.....I'm lost.
> I'm goin' to bed.
> The heck with those Perseids !!
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Richard Kowalski" <damoclid at yahoo.com>
> To: <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 2:10 AM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Perseids Tonight
> 
> 
> No it is tonight.
> 
> See the Sky & Telescope page:
> 
> http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/home/52204947.html
> 
> We should pass though the 1610 stream around 9UT, but there
> may be another, 
> smaller peak around 5UT and the "standard peak" should be
> around 18UT.
> 
> All of them tonight.
> 
> 
> --
> Richard Kowalski
> http://fullmoonphotography.net
> IMCA #1081
> 
> 
> --- On Tue, 8/11/09, Matthias B?rmann <majbaermann at web.de>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Matthias B?rmann <majbaermann at web.de>
> > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Perseids Tonight
> > To: Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com,
> bernd.pauli at paulinet.de
> > Date: Tuesday, August 11, 2009, 4:47 PM
> > Jan, Bernd & other Perseids
> > aficionados , -
> >
> > as far as I'm informed the climax this year is
> expected for
> > the night
> > wednesday/thursday = next night.
> >
> > My best,
> >
> > Matthias
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de>
> > To: <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 1:25 AM
> > Subject: [meteorite-list] Perseids Tonight
> >
> >
> > > Jan writes: "So far only saw 2 Perseids in one
> hour."
> > >
> > > So you are among the lucky ones! No Perseids here
> so
> > far :-(
> > > It is cloudy but I caught a hole in the clouds
> and was
> > able to
> > > see the Summer Triangle, Hercules (Keystone), the
> Big
> > Dipper,
> > > and, of course the last quarter Moon, ... but no
> > Perseids :-(
> > >
> > >> Guess it's not too much firework so far
> > >
> > > A possible surge in activity is expected for
> 08-09 hrs
> > UT, which
> > > translates
> > > into 10-11 hrs MESZ, so, no big deal tonight /
> tmorrow
> > morning for us here
> > > in Europe.
> > >
> > >
> > > Best from cloudy
> > > Southern Germany,
> > >
> > > Bernd
> > >
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