The Geminids are on this weekend and it promises to be a good show as there's little interference form moon light. If you can get away from any low-lying fog patches and from street lighting, they're predicting a peak of 100 per hour. Best time should be Sunday night/Monday morning, but Sat/Sun should be good too.

druidh, is this all over the country?? I'm just back in Scotland so will definitely head out to see them. Night ride anyone???

Just googled. All over the country indeed. Cheers for the heads-up.

All over the woooorld man – all over the wooooorld

What directio are they coming from? they usually centre in one area

Ta BTW

Dunt really matter, but..

Ta – up and left of Orion. I'll have a look tonight

Sorry druidh, you need to factor in tht we're not all astronomy literate. Looking up in which direction?

Up will do fine. There's no need to be looking at the radiant as they'll be all over the sky. In fact, the best ones tend to be some distance from the radiant. But TJ is right. Find Orions belt – the three bright stars in the South, look up and left to the two bright stars in Gemini (Castor and Pollux).

Gonna head out into the sticks to have a looksie tonight.

Cool – thanks for that Druidh. I'll try and remember to have a look tonight

love it 🙂

Bloody hell – don't give technical directions to this lot – they'll only Pollux it up…

IGMC 😳

nice one!

Druidh – you're a star!

IGMC x 2

damn though you meant these Meteors

Now that would have been fun

Whoop. excuse for a night walk/ride/paddle

Good chance to see the International Space Station zoom past in the next few days too

Details of when, where & for how long here
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/region.cgi?country=United_Kingdom&region=England

more on the Geminids: http://www.spacedex.com/geminids2009/europe_unitedkingdom.php

Lol at muddydwarf. Wish I'd thought of that one. That star map is nice and clear, Orion is one of the most easily identified winter consellations, so just look at that and you'll start to see meteors pretty easily. Really, just look due east and up a bit.
[edit] Just had a look at Star Walk on my phone, and there's also the Monocerotids occuring from nearly the same place, roughly between Gemini and Orion, and down a bit. They're between late November and mid December, so they should add a bit more to the show.

Just popped out for a look and saw a couple of shooting stars – each was over in a couple of seconds. But its freezing out, so came back in quickly. Should be a good show if it peaks later.

My turn! Saw a couple, one right out of the middle of Gemini. I'll have another shot tomorrow. Brrrrrr, back to the woodburner.

Just saw the best one I've ever seen. Short in length and underneath Orion, coming from direction of Gemini and went down to horizon. VERY clear and was moving relatively slowly. Fantastic tail on it and it had a green hue to it. Beautiful. Feinter activity spotted closer to Gemini but nothing as clear as this!

The fog has disappeared and I've managed to spot a few from the comfort and warmth of the house 🙂

Too cloudy here at the moment 🙁

popped out to yonder hill, saw a few short trails…nothing like watching them in the desert though….turn off your lights people! 😀

It's clouded over here in Sheffield. Typical. Same for the Leonids back in Aug-ish. Bah… Sounds pretty.

Im now freezing and my neck hurts a bit, nice and clear here in Aberystwyth. Saw quite a few!

PJ266 yup just been out the back in Penrhyncoch and saw a few. Might hed to Nant-yr-Arian tomorrow night for a proper dark watch

😀

I was tempted to jump in the car and pop out there too.

Must admit, I clicked on it expecting tour dates of another early 80s reunion.
meteors

Sadly clouded over here in North Wilts. Buggerit!

Bump for this evening. Looking a wee bit overcast here. Hope it clears later

fingers crossed the cloud will **** off!

Went up to Spean Bridge just after ten last night, saw some absolute belters. Thanks for the heads up!

I'm pretty sure I spotted one in daylight yesterday. Didn't know we were in the middle of a 'storm' so thought I was seeing things. Vert brief and VERY fast. Definately not a plane. Glad I'm not seeing things!

Checked a few times but just too much cloud here in Stafford. 🙁

just cloud and an evening spent driving to all the highest points in wilts and OX!! pfft!!!

Hi Speaker2animals.

I've twice seem metetors in broad daylight. Once whilst on holiday in Spain, and another time looking East over the sea near Edinburgh.
They do happen – I guess when they are visible in full daylight, they are pretty big!