Leonid Meteor Shower this week end!

The 2018 Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks This Weekend! Here's What to Expect

 

The last several events, I've been "clouded out" supposed to be clear here in Montana. Things are looking up!

The 2018 Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks This Weekend! Here's What to Expect

 

. . . Things are looking up!

 

As you shall be....show some pics if you get any, would be great.

I faithfully go out and look, but it's usually cloudy or hazy here at 300-500 feet ASL.

 

When I was a kid in scouts we used to see really impressive meteor showers, but then nothing is as impressive as when i was 14:oops:

Best seen after the waxing gibeous moon sets tonight at about midnight MST. Or, if you are an early morning person like me, before dawn.

You know, I haven't seen a night sky full of stars in...decades!

Looks to be cloudy here, dad gummit! There's a spot we like to go about 40 miles west, with 2 mountain ranges between us and city lights. Well, not this year, I guess...:(

Overcast yet again! Rats!

We are visiting our daughter in Santa Barbara and I went out at 5 AM this morning to look for Leonid meteors. Despite a thin layer of fog over Leo which obscured most of it's stars, I managed to see one meteor with it's streak lasting less than a second! Not worth the trouble of setting up camera equipment.

 

Sanford -since I believe that you live on the Monterey Peninsula, just drive down the coast on a clear moonless night to, say, Garapata State Park. There, you should have no trouble seeing (and perhaps photographing) the Milky Way along with a sky full of stars.

Edited November 18, 2018 by Glenn McCreery

The last meteor shower I saw was the Perseid shower several years ago. I walked out onto the porch, looked up, and saw a big fireball within a minute. I figured I wasn't going to see anything to match that, so I turned around and went back inside.

Sanford -since I believe that you live on the Monterey Peninsula, just drive down the coast on a clear moonless night to, say, Garapata State Park. There, you should have no trouble seeing (and perhaps photographing) the Milky Way along with a sky full of stars.

The northern California coast through at least Monterey is very smoky, so in most locations the sky is just a haze, which is the least of our worries right now. It's not a good idea, for health reasons, even to be outdoors in a lot of the state.

Glen, I know Garapata Beach well. Photographed many a sunset there, all slides. It was that long ago. My problem is laziness and motivation. Edited November 18, 2018 by Sanford

Garapata is a great place to photograph and hike (if you avoid the poison oak). I drove there many mornings when visiting my sister, when she lived in Pacific Grove and then Carmel Valley. The highway has had more than it's share of closures due to fires, earthquakes, landslides, and mudslides, so getting there can sometimes be problematic.