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Old 20th October 2006, 12:34
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Meteors tonight
Watch the Skies!

Tonight is the peak of the Orionid Meteors - If it is a clear night & you are up & about at @1:30am (should be good from @midnight - 5am) tomorrow morning, look towards Orion & hopefully, you should see plenty of meteors.

BBC - Science & Nature - Space - Meteor Showers

A chair, blanket & a flask/hip-flask are useful optional extras too.
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Old 16th November 2006, 11:29
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Get yourselves ready for the Leonids on Saturday night/Sunday morning. The predictions for this years shower are very promising.

Leonids 2006
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Old 16th November 2006, 19:54
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GOOD stuff. The forecast for Sat night is sunny, which presumably means that it will be clear at night?
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Old 26th November 2006, 15:58
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It was indeed a clear night - I got out @2:30am with a couple of flasks of strong coffee & was seeing meteors from the off.

The hail of them didn't happen tho but @ 5am, there was @20mins of big, bright meteors radiating out over the sea & towards the west - Classic Leonids, leaving great long trails arcing across the sky. Smaller meteors were visible on a minute-by minute basis all night.

Saw two owls & some deer too.

Eventually @6am, the cloud began to rise & I got an hour or so's sleep - only to wake-up to the first lying snow of this year & a lovely bright sunrise:









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