Heads up - Geminids meteor shower 6th-20th december.

[anything-but]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geminids
Active now but peaks on the 13th with possible 50-70 meteors` per hour possible

 

[Greenlizard0]

22 Miles per second. Lol the speed of stuff flying around in space always makes me think how small and slow we sort of all are.

 

[Sonea Fifer]

22 Miles per second. Lol the speed of stuff flying around in space always makes me think how small and slow we sort of all are.

Yeah but whats its 0-60 time?

 

[Amp34]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geminids
Active now but peaks on the 13th with possible 50-70 meteors` per hour possible

More than that, should be 120+ (Or about one every 30 seconds.)

 

[Kristoph]

Yeah but whats its 0-60 time?

2.7 seconds.. 0-60miles.

 

[Feek]

I used to enjoy doing Meteor Scatter, bouncing speeded bursts of CW off of the meteors. Not done any of it for years though.

 

[Psycrow]

Cheers for the heads up, will go somewhere dark for a looksie on the 13th.

 

[anything-but]

I used to enjoy doing Meteor Scatter, bouncing speeded bursts of CW off of the meteors. Not done any of it for years though.

That reminds me of when i used my C64 for RTTY

 

[gumbald]

"Heads up", see what you did there

 

[Slinky1989]

Ahhhhh so that's why I saw one the other night! Awesome

Was at about 10pm btw.

 

[GarethDW]

Oooh, cool.... will sit in the garden with my nipper watching the sky and doing my dodgy Patrick Moore impressions

 

[helmet]

Better not be one of these make them all sit outside in the cold whilst I nick all of their Christmas presents stunts .

Cheers for the info!

 

[Kristoph]

Just went out and had a look, v.clear sky but didn't see a thing, not even a satellite..

What's that program that you can use to show when a satellite is about to pass over.

Also, O/T but looking out at the stars I wondered which was the oldest, ie. from which star is does light takes the longest to reach earth?