Persied Meteor Shower Preview '09

Joining John Chumack via his Northeast Sky Camera #2 in his backyard Observatory in Dayton, Ohio USA. This 5 hour movie was compressed to 10 seconds for web viewing. Says John, "The brightest one occurred when the radiant was low on the horizon around 1:27am this fireball was at around -8 magnitude or greater, even with all the strong moonlight, some of the meteors are very bright! this one had a double explosion too!" Astronomers are now estimating a double peak this year on the Tuesday night the 11th to Wednesday morning the 12th of August 2009. One peak should occur around 1:00am EST and the other peak around 5:30am EST., but be sure to watch all night long, as they do not stop coming for several days after estimated peaks. Good luck and clear skies!!

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[thebosnianforce]

dudeee, its PERSEID, not persied -.-' learn how to spell

[cheetosbitch]

naother one happing in a few hours :P

[mtdb0i]

these appear like around 1:50 am- 4 am i think

[extreme989]

its at midnight

[arcana0wns]

i cant beleive i missed this :c the last shower was on my birth day

[liveonthebackbeat]

Thank you so much! ahah no i'm not in the uk... canada actually:)

[CrazyAbe101]

i saw a lot of them last night and one with fireball too! :D it was amazinggg! you have to be patient to see these things.. they take a while to appear. does anyone know if its still going on later tonight?

[botomatic2]

i saw it last night and i saw only like 10 good ones per hour

[saske393]

i wanted to see it but it was like 3:00 oclock i think

[kriegdouch]

the huge one, persied fireball was the first one i think i saw, around 1:00 to 1:15, i don't remember, but the trail was green and it scared the shit outof me till i realized what i just saw, completely unexpeceted for how big it was