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The year’s most dazzling meteor shower takes place tonight
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| Magnetonium |
Get your cameras ready for tonight and tomorrow night - this should be much better than Aurora Borealis.
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/art...ce-tonight?bn=1
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Tonight, just lie back and look at the stars.
If you want company, the David Dunlap Observatoryin Richmond Hill is throwing a party to see the celestial light show – as many as 100 meteors per hour as the Perseid shower hits its stride.
For southern and central Ontario, just after sunset this evening, weather permitting, should kick off the most spectacular cosmic alignment of planets sprinkled with shooting stars.
Astronomers expect Venus, Saturn and Mars to squeeze together in the western sky near the last sliver of the moon. As the skies darken, starting around 10:30 p.m., the Perseid shower should kick into full flight.
“A very good shower will produce about one meteor per minute under a dark country sky,” observatory astronomers say. The annual August Perseid is among the strongest cascades of the year, and tonight it’s at its height.
Stargazers planning a trek to the observatory should bring lawn chairs and blankets for the open house from 9:30 p.m. to midnight. DDO promises to post a forecast at 6 p.m. with weather conditions. The best way to watch, says National Geographic, is simply lying back on the ground or in a chair with the naked eye.
DDO will have small telescopes available on the grounds for people to use while waiting to watch other celestial shows, said Dr. Ralph Chou, president of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Toronto Centre.
Photographers need only point their camera skyward and open the shutter for 10 seconds at a time to capture the light show, he said.
Earth moving through a cloud of dust and debris left by the Swift-Tuttle comet sets off the Perseids each mid-August. As the debris hits the atmosphere at 160,000 kilometres an hour, it burns up in streaks of light.
Environment Canada is predicting mostly clear skies tonight. |
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| Dior Homme |
| My neck currently hurts from looking at the sky. Haven't seen a meteor yet..... |
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| Dior Homme |
So anyway, i saw 3 black dude getting search with 5 cruisers line up in brampton. and 2 cruisers in the park close to chingcousy...
no meteor shower. i did step in dog poop though. |
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| Dior Homme |
So anyway, i saw 3 black dude getting search with 5 cruisers line up in brampton. and 2 cruisers in the park close to chingcousy...
no meteor shower. i did step in dog poop though. |
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| DJ Mach X |
I saw a triple post...
TRIPLE POST! WOAH! What does it mean?! It was almost a...quadruple post!
SO INTENSE! |
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| Dior Homme |
| internet slow in brampton... deleting posts doesnt work for me. |
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| Abercrombie |
| holy cow, they are really coming down tonight! Three huge ones I saw in the time of one smoke. |
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| Magnetonium |
| quote: | Originally posted by Abercrombie
holy cow, they are really coming down tonight! Three huge ones I saw in the time of one smoke. |
Yeah, I drove out about 30 minutes into the countryside and man WHAT A VIEW ... Miky Way galaxy, shiny stars, clear sky ... and LOTS of damn meteorites! :eyes: Every couple minutes or so I see a quick linear 1-second bright flash
My camera pooped, I couldn't find the shutter option for taking a pic over a 1 minute period. :whip: |
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| *~LiSa-LoO~* |
| We couldn't see anything from our balcony :( |
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