Membership questions? Log in issues? Email info@brewersassociation.org

Author Topic: quadrantid meteor shower  (Read 2276 times)

Offline 1vertical

  • I spend way too much time on the AHA forum
  • ********
  • Posts: 2702
  • Ozone Layer. Actual location
quadrantid meteor shower
« on: January 04, 2012, 09:07:58 am »
May be better than the geminid shower which was mostly meh IMO...
but here we go again.....
http://www.space.com/14104-strong-quadrantid-meteor-shower-peaks-wednesday.html
A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.

Offline punatic

  • Official Poobah of No Life. (I Got Ban Hammered by Drew)
  • *********
  • Posts: 4583
  • Puna District, Hawaii Island (UTC -10)
Re: quadrantid meteor shower
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2012, 10:19:13 am »
Lots of moon out this week here in Hawaii (around 80% full).. Moonset is around 4:40AM.  A narrow meteor window possible after that.  Sunrise at 6:55AM, but the sky starts to lighten around 6:00.
There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way.


AHA Life Member #33907

Offline euge

  • I must live here
  • **********
  • Posts: 8017
  • Ego ceruisam ad bibere cervisiam
Re: quadrantid meteor shower
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2012, 11:56:36 am »
Crap. I missed it!
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. -Richard P. Feynman

Laws are spider-webs, which catch the little flies, but cannot hold the big ones. -Anacharsis

Offline 1vertical

  • I spend way too much time on the AHA forum
  • ********
  • Posts: 2702
  • Ozone Layer. Actual location
Re: quadrantid meteor shower
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2012, 12:06:18 pm »
I think perhaps not euge...try in the wee.....0400 hours thursday mornin...
A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.

Offline morticaixavier

  • I must live here
  • **********
  • Posts: 7781
  • Underhill VT
    • The Best Artist in the WORLD!!!!!
Re: quadrantid meteor shower
« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2012, 01:50:43 pm »
I think perhaps not euge...try in the wee.....0400 hours thursday mornin...

that's not what the link says. it says peak around 2:30 AM wednesday. already over :(
"Creativity is the residue of wasted time"
-A Einstein

"errors are [...] the portals of discovery"
- J Joyce

Offline euge

  • I must live here
  • **********
  • Posts: 8017
  • Ego ceruisam ad bibere cervisiam
Re: quadrantid meteor shower
« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2012, 02:24:18 pm »
I think perhaps not euge...try in the wee.....0400 hours thursday mornin...

that's not what the link says. it says peak around 2:30 AM wednesday. already over :(

That's what I was going by. And we have perfect clear skies right now.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. -Richard P. Feynman

Laws are spider-webs, which catch the little flies, but cannot hold the big ones. -Anacharsis

Offline morticaixavier

  • I must live here
  • **********
  • Posts: 7781
  • Underhill VT
    • The Best Artist in the WORLD!!!!!
Re: quadrantid meteor shower
« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2012, 02:41:04 pm »
I think perhaps not euge...try in the wee.....0400 hours thursday mornin...

that's not what the link says. it says peak around 2:30 AM wednesday. already over :(

That's what I was going by. And we have perfect clear skies right now.

you might still see a few if you find a really deep hole to climb down into. maybe an old abandoned well? or mine shaft? course that kind of reduces the amount of sky you can see. ::)
"Creativity is the residue of wasted time"
-A Einstein

"errors are [...] the portals of discovery"
- J Joyce

Offline euge

  • I must live here
  • **********
  • Posts: 8017
  • Ego ceruisam ad bibere cervisiam
Re: quadrantid meteor shower
« Reply #7 on: January 04, 2012, 02:43:41 pm »
That would make it seem as if I had some sort of misanthropic desperate need to see these particular meteors.  ::)
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. -Richard P. Feynman

Laws are spider-webs, which catch the little flies, but cannot hold the big ones. -Anacharsis