see a meteor shower

Next try will be the Draconids 10/7 and 8. If anyone else is interested in pursuing this, a schedule of meteor showers can be found at http://www.earthsky.org/tonightpost/astronomy-essentials/earthskys-meteor-shower-guide.

Got up before dawn, put on my coat, and drank some coffee before I noticed it was rainy and foggy outside. Next meteor shower is the Lyrids on April 22 give or take a day and between 10 and dawn.

This is the next meteor shower for this area. Says to look north in the hours before dawn.

Due to rain clouds moving in. Won’t complain, though, because we REALLY needed the rain. Next good meteor shower isn’t until 2009.

The Draconids is the only other meteor shower this year that may be visible in this area, so I put it down on my calender. This one is supposed to be best seen in the earlier evening hours instead of after midnight, so that’s a help.

We drove 30 minutes north of Atlanta to avoid the light pollution and settled in at a good spot in a state park, but clouds rolled in about 10:15 PM, and it was part of a front, so we went home. Saw stars but no meteor shower.

The Perseid meteor shower is coming through. Will get me unto a mountain if the weather is clear.