Perseid: Where to go?

tempe8 · Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 66 Location: Tempe, AZ

Is anyone planning on watching the Perseid Meteor Shower this week? Does anyone have any good suggestions for where to watch...places that aren't too far out of town ideally? Ideally not too much hiking in the middle of the night would be good as well.

tempe8 · Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 66 Location: Tempe, AZ

Here's some info on it:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5663832/?GT1=4529

matt gilbert · Joined: 28 Jul 2003 Posts: 698 Location: Mesa

I'm thinking of going somewhere along the bush highway, there's all kinds of pullouts and usually not that many people. That or drive out along the beeline and take one of the roads out around the four peaks/sycamore creek area (its about 20-30 minutes past the casino).
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jmzblond · Posted: 8/11/2004, 5:02 pm Post subject:

I'm heading out on Peralta Road into the Supes... lots of pull-outs and always dark. Great viewing.

I've also heard of people heading out towards First Water trailhead. If you feel like hiking a little, Garden Valley is always nice.
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jmzblond · Posted: 8/12/2004, 7:51 am Post subject:

I don't know about anyone else, but it was so cloudy we didn't even go out. I got up and went outside for about a half an hour and watched the cloud movement. I never even saw a regular star, let alone a shooting one. So we just went back to bed. I was so disappointed

Sorry Wandering... I bet it was a good show somewhere above the clouds!!
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Hnak · Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 1766 Location: Prescott, AZ

Cloudy here in Preskitt too.... Sad

Shawn · Posted: 8/12/2004, 6:00 pm Post subject:

Maybe you can get your money back.
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Arizonaheat · Posted: 8/12/2004, 6:04 pm Post subject:

It was a great show from my spaceship Beam me up

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Davis2001R6 · Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 5591 Location: Italy

We actually had a pretty good show from Luke AFB. Working nights on the flightline we were just BS'ing and we kept noticing all the shooting stars. Then I remembered about the meteor shower. I also noticed a lot of shooting starts while at Mt. Whitney. I though they were just for good luck though.

Trishness · Posted: 8/12/2004, 9:12 pm Post subject:

Due to the cloud cover on Thursday before sunrise, we decided to go out early Friday morning instead.

Mr. Green

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"Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than a glimmer blending with the hem of the sky, but it spoke to them, out of the memory and old tales, of the high and distant mountains." � J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of The Rings.

Nighthiker · Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 1714

Had javelina milling about in my front yard around 2am, went out to look at 330am and it was cloudy. One of the planets was shining and it looked like a giant porch light on Montana Mtn.