Perseids Meteor Shower:
Radiant: constellation Perseus
Active: Perseids begin to rise early August.
Peak Activity: Aug. 12-13, 2010
Peak Activity Meteor Count: Approximately 50 meteors per hour
Time of Optimal Viewing: Crescent moon will set early in the evening, allowing for dark skies all the way up until peak viewing just before dawn
Peak is considered to be from Midnight till dawn.
Cloud cover about 95%, cloud base about 500 feet.
are they still out?
They last until dawn.
I went out about 2:00PM and stayed for about 45 minutes
It was not a particurly a good year. Just a fair amount of small short ones. And for minutes at a time there would be none.
Not close to the best i’ve seen.
I’m glad I didn’t travel far to get to someplace really dark.
I drove around for an hour trying to find a hole in the clouds + fog.
All I found was more clouds + fog.
Didn’t see any meteors, but my passenger was seeing stars after some high speed runs through the twisty mountain roads. 
Thanks for the update, ezas… glad I didn’t miss much!
Saw a few a couple nights ago but it has been pretty cloudy up here too.
Leonids are on November 17th
I wish I’d seen this one:
The November 17, 1966 Leonid meteor shower was the largest meteor shower in our lifetime with a reported 150,000 meteors entering our atmosphere every hour, that’s over 40 per second.
Also might want to mark Aug 21st, 2017 on your calendars.
FirstTOTAL (no annular ring) eclipse on the US mainland since 1979. First to sweep across the country since 1918
It enters in South Carolina and exits Oregon.
It’s a Monday so put in for time off now before the rush.
Every thing you could want to know: http://www.eclipse2017.org/ECLIPSE2017_main.HTM
I went out last night at midnight. It was clear and warm in Seattle. I saw one beauty which traced about 40 degrees of arc.
We saw heaps of meteorites in Mongolia last week. The sky was clear and there was very little ambient light. I think one night I counted about 5 in an hour, as well as a satellite or two.
I saw one good one last night.
down in ausvegas i saw a handful a few nights ago when i went out to look. i think we only get the leftovers and nothing spectacular like in the US.
The leonids are not predicted to be a very big show this year.
The Leonids produced several storms recently, and a host of smaller outbursts. Nothing spectacular is predicted in 2010, but part of the interest in meteor observing is seeing the unpredicted. On the other hand, rates could be even lower than expected… Although the predicted maximum occurs during daylight for North America, over the past few years the “normal” maximum has been broad enough to cover the globe. This year’s Moon reinforces the mandate to observe during the predawn hours, as it sets at around 3am in most locations. There should still be some decent activity on November 18, but the moon-free window is a lot shorter.