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scubadude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 05:09 PM
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Don't miss the Orionids!!! A great meteor shower this coming week.
Edited on Sat Oct-17-09 05:35 PM by scubadude
These meteors are very visually interesting.

http://www.visualastronomy.com/2008/10/upcoming-event-orionid-meteor-shower.html


Scuba
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geckosfeet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 05:30 PM
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1. Cool. We have three nights of clear skies on tap next week - if forecasts holds.
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scubadude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 05:44 PM
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2. Unfortunately for me, it looks bad...
You never know though. I've been know to drive a hundred miles in any direction to poke a hole in the clouds.

Here's a great site to use for planning in the day or so prior to when you go out. There are a number of ways to access the area you want to look, and it shows factors that can hamper viewing like cloud cover, atmospheric transparency, light pollution and more. This is what I start looking at and it's usually very good at figuring out when and where the best viewing will be.

http://cleardarksky.com/csk/

Enjoy!

Scuba
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geckosfeet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-18-09 07:51 AM
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8. Our skies will be clear - lots of light pollution though. Sorry to hear your weather will not
be optimal. Clouds (and the moon) ruined the persiods for us the last couple of years.

Bookmarking the link in my weather sites. Thanks!
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Chemisse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 06:02 PM
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3. Thanks for the reminder - nt
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WhiteTara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 06:37 PM
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4. thanks. I'll be watching n/t
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donco6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 07:23 PM
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5. Watching at 9900 feet.
Up at the cabin with my new Celestron.
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scubadude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 08:16 PM
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6. Great, you should have an excellent view. nt
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tabbycasper Donating Member (8 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 09:21 PM
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7. thanks!
hopefully my bell's palsy will be gone and I can take off this eyepatch and can completly enjoy it.
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