Spectacular Summer Sights: Shooting Stars


	Spectacular Summer Sights: Shooting Stars

tabsey

7-19-2008 11:51 AM

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now, we'll, see, if, that, telescope, works

tabsey says:

Pack the ute and head to the drive-in. Watch the shooting stars over the screen. Whoops! Wrong era.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/12b16786-0b1b-4eed-9d67-91c3ea2250db/7C4B8B30-34A6-4181-BB2F-BE89762DA9B6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.space.com/spacewatch/080718-ns-shooting-stars.html" href="http://www.space.com/spacewatch/080718-ns-shooting-stars.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.space.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/spacewatch/080718-ns-shooting-stars.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.space.com/img/C35F66A0-5766-4810-9A76-3C910D043492" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/spacewatch/080718-ns-shooting-stars.html"><SPAN>Anyone gazing at the summer
night sky for even a short length of time is likely to spot a few
"shooting stars" darting across the sky.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/spacewatch/080718-ns-shooting-stars.html"><SPAN>Meteors are typically bits
of material left behind by comets. They're often no larger than sand grains,
and they vaporize as they enter our atmosphere. In general, the Earth
encounters richer meteoric activity during the second half of the year. Between
August 3 and 15, there are a half-dozen different minor displays that are
active.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/spacewatch/080718-ns-shooting-stars.html"><SPAN>The best display of the
summer comes during the second week of August: the annual </SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/spacewatch/080718-ns-shooting-stars.html"><SPAN>. At its peak around the nights of Aug. 11 and 12,
this display can produce 50 to 100 fast, bright meteors per hour.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/spacewatch/080718-ns-shooting-stars.html"><SPAN>This will be a fair-to-good
year to watch for the Perseids. A bright gibbous moon, which initially will
interfere with observations, will set at around 1:30 a.m., leaving the rest of
the night dark for prospective meteor watchers. The only equipment you'll need
is your eyes and a modest amount of patience.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/spacewatch/080718-ns-shooting-stars.html"><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN><B>Early morning is best</B></SPAN></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7C4B8B30-34A6-4181-BB2F-BE89762DA9B6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>