[at-l] Bathe your naked eyes in a meteor shower

[wb4pan at mindspring.com (Chase Davidson)]

Thanks for the reminder Jan!
	
	And While you are out there. Check out http://www.heavens-above.com . 
Plug in your viewing location and find out where and when to see some 
awesome man made sites in the night sky. If you have not seen (with 
your naked eye) the ISS pass overhead. Then you have missed a treat. 
It is so bright you will think, no, this is a helicopter.

chase

Jan Leitschuh wrote:

>  From the Charlotte Observer, today:
> 
> 
> "Bathe your naked eyes in a meteor shower"
> 
> 
> Streaks will peak late Wednesday night, so have the caffeine ready
> 
> by HOWIE PAUL HARTNETT
> Staff Writer
> 
> Hopeless romantics, insomniacs and children looking for a reason to stay 
> up past their bedtime, rejoice.
> 
> The annual Perseid meteor shower hits its peak this week -- and 
> astronomers say the show could be more visible than it's been in years.
> 
> Just a fraction of the moon will be lighted late Wednesday and early 
> Thursday morning as the Earth passes through the densest part of the 
> comet Swift-Tuttle's debris trail.
> 
> That should make it easy to see comet bits ramming into the atmosphere, 
> creating bright streaks of light.
> 
> The Perseids are usually one of the most reliable shows for meteor 
> gazers. But the past few years a full, or nearly full, moon has limited 
> viewings.
> 
> "The moon has been terrible," said Spencer Rackley IV, a member of the 
> Charlotte Amateur Astronomers Club. "(This year) the moon will be less 
> than 12 percent lit, and doesn't rise until 2:30 a.m. or thereabouts."
> 
> http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/9360813.htm?1c