http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonids
Looks like we are in for a treat tonight (or tomorrow night).
For whom the bell tolls
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonids
Looks like we are in for a treat tonight (or tomorrow night).
KiwiBitcher
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It's better to not pass and know that you could have than to pass and find out that you can't. Wait for the straight.
Hardcore Biker
Any idea what time
Thats whats up.
Rider in training
And what direction we should look?
Hardcore Biker
starts around 3am ... at its heaviest 9.30 am ... northeast.
I will be up just before dawn. Nite!
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news...ectid=10609872
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that when your feet hit the floor in the morning,
Satan shudders & says....'Oh shit!....she's awake!!'
Forum whore
The Herald says:
The shower will be at its heaviest from 9.34am to 9.44am, but meteors will be visible from about 3am.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news...ectid=10609872
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Resident Redneck
Too bad it's pissing down here.....wont be able to see a farking thing....unless one crashes down on our roof!!!!
Trying to be a good dog
Its going to piss down here in Western Springs, and the NE is over the city so even if it was fine I'd prolly see nuttin.
Forum whore
I hope it clears up tomorrow. My 2 eldest boys are keen amateur astronomers, but the weather has been crap for the Leonids for their entire lives.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
$1,101,806
Its a crystal clear minus 28 night here in at 4000m in Kyrgyzstan...and it just happens I will be up and off to work 2am....9 am NZ...so maybe
Forum whore
Land of the long white cloud.
Sigh...
The greatest pleasure of my recent life has been speed on the road. . . . I lose detail at even moderate speed but gain comprehension. . . . I could write for hours on the lustfulness of moving swiftly.
--T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia)
Hardcore Biker
Originally Posted by Forest
it has stretched its way down here too
Any decent astronomical events we try to get to see down here, cloud always puts a damper on things.
Do you reckon there will be a showing early tomorrow morning?
Live your life in such a way,
that when your feet hit the floor in the morning,
Satan shudders & says....'Oh shit!....she's awake!!'
BMW Motorrad
I was just gonna see that movie today!
If you can make it on Kiwibiker you can make it anywhere.
The 2nd-most bad arse KBer.
woke up at 5.30, some good clouds.
Then I could get a Kb Tshirt, move to Timaru and become a full time crossdressing faggot
Forum whore
Weather shit down in Chch.
Meant to be the best one this century. 100 an hour.
If you are not too sure where to look down load Stelarium and find the constilation of Leo. If memory serves me correctly Leo will down somewhere near the horizon so we will not get the best view.
http://www.stellarium.org/
Leonids (LEO) ZHR=100.0 Velocity=71.6km/s (very rapid)
Radiant: RA=10.3h/154° Dec=21.6° (J2000) (in constellation Leo/Leo)
Solar longitude=235.3° (J2000)
Skyryder
Free Scott Watson.
For whom the bell tolls
Overcast... sigh. Was meant to be mint in Asia - 9am our time is about 3am in the morning for them - up to 500 an hour.
KiwiBitcher
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