Comments on: 12 things you need to watch the Perseid meteors Sunday nightI am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog.By: Astrolink Global Edition Aurigid meteors: make a 3D map! Latest astronomy news in 11 languages- August 28, 2007 ... coast of the U.S. and Hawaii are favored. For general instructions on how to watch a meteor shower, read my Perseid article (the Aurigids will come form the same rough direction as the Perseids, so the instructions in that ...http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/09/12-things-you-need-to-watch-the-... By: Urbane Guerrilla- August 20, 2007 Madman, no need to fly to Arizona. Just go to Mt. Diablo in the East Bay, south of Concord. The Chabot Observatory telescope hobby guys hold star parties up there regularly. The famous Bay Area fog can actually be handy for an observer up on Diablo should it come in on those little cat feet. He's at four thousand feet and the fog doesn't go that high -- but absorbs city lights instead. Darn handy, when it's Oakland that's blanketed.http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/09/12-things-you-need-to-watch-the-... |