Astronomy Toadfish Nerds Unite!

[Opsa]

We have a couple of meteor showers coming our way.

Firstly, the Southern and Northern Taurids are upon us right now. The Southern peaks around the 5th and the Northern peaks around the 12th.

The Leonids will be peaking around November 18th. This year the waxing moon may make viewing fairly good, especially for toadfish in Europe, North Africa and the Near East. They come at Earth headlong, and so appear very fast and often bright, and over half leave persistant trains.

[Darlica]

Thank you for the heads up!

I will be on the countryside dog sitting around the 18/11 so I actually have a chance to see The Leonids (there's too much light pollution where I usually live).
 

[Opsa]

Cool! Tell us if you spot any!

[Opsa]

Lunar eclipse coming to the Americas on February 20th and to Western Europe February 21st!
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/LEmono/TLE2008Feb21/TLE2008Feb21.html

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Just saw this on Google News.

Here's a diagram for CENTRAL standard time.  Diagram from NASA website.   For EASTERN, it'd be +1 hour, for MOUNTAIN, it'll be -1 hour and for PACIFIC, it will be -2 hours.

[Opsa]

Waugh!!! It's supposed to be cloudy here tomorrow night!

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Waugh!!! It's supposed to be cloudy here tomorrow night!

Same for here, too.  *bleah*  It was all Sunny on Monday....

[Aphos]

Got lucky and saw the space shuttle and the space station pass over this evening.  A friend called me up right before they went over and told me they would be visible.  Went outside and it was cloudy to the east, but fairly clear to the west where they passed.  Two bright dots (about magnitude 0) passing from west to south about 1 minute apart.

[Aggie]

Waugh!!! It's supposed to be cloudy here tomorrow night!

Same for here, too.  *bleah*  It was all Sunny on Monday....

Webcast, anyone?

http://www.ucalgary.ca/rao/

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Webcast, anyone?

http://www.ucalgary.ca/rao/

Thank you.   I will also pass that along, to my peeps in OK-- for it looks like a cloudy day today.   

[Aggie]

It's supposed to be nice and clear here, so hopefully it'll be a good show.  I should be able to see it from my balcony depending on the height of the moon...  if not, I might have to go for a walk.

[Opsa]

It's cloudy with snow showers here right now, but there's  a possibility it will clear by eclipse time! 

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Same here, cloudy specifically at the expected time 

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Too cloudy.  I suppose I'll have to console myself with the webcast video.

*bleah*

Not the same AT ALL!

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Actually, the cloud cover had holes and I was able to see it (and I was actually able to see the rings of Saturn too!).

I took pictures but those didn't work at all (too blurred or too grainy)