set your alarm clocks

[Dave]

meteor shower

Astronomers predict that the next occurrence of a Leonid storm even close to this magnitude will be in 2099.

 

[Dave]

so....did anyone bother to watch for this?
full moon and overcast skies made it impossible here.

 

[karlwb]

Wet and cloudy.....no sky.

 

[Luis G]

i saw it, i got up at 4:00am, the sky was clear, but the luminosity of the city and the full moon reduced a lot the number of meteors i saw.

In one hour i got to see about 50. I tried to take pics, but it happens so fast taht is impossible to click the button.

 

[Dave]

I tried to take pics, but it happens so fast taht is impossible to click the button

wouldn't you have needed to do a time exposure or do they make insanly fast film these days?
my camera is a kodak advantix. the one with 3 different picture sizes. highest speed film for that is 400 i believe.

 

[Luis G]

Is a digital camera, i can actually take pics of the stars, the minimum (maximum?) shutter speed is 2 seconds.

 

[Dave]

i gotta get me one of those....

 

[Aunty Em]

Wet and cloudy.....no sky.

Unfortunately.

 

[kuulani]

my sister set her alarm and woke up to see nothing.