Hundreds of them. But my eyes aren't as good as the used to be. I remember watching Perseids as a kid and counting over 50 in one night. We spent the entire night laying on our backs in a pasture.
I used to live in a small town at 7000 feet elevation. When I walked at night, it was extremely common to see meteors, like almost every night.
Leonids is coming up soon. I don't know how good it's expected to be this year. But now is the time to make plans. Find a place far from the city, and ideally higher in elevation. And of course no cloud cover. If you check the weather ahead of time you might be able to pick a place with no cloud cover. The peak is Nov 17 which is a Wednesday. The weekend before and after might still be OK.
You have to have patience during a shower. You can't look for ten minutes and expect a meteor to jump into your view. Give your eyes a chance to adjust to the dark, and give it some time. Get a lounge chair, or lay a blanket on the ground. Lay on your back. Doing it standing up will be very hard on the neck. Kick back and chill, and relax the eyes.
Leonids had a peak in the late 90s. I traveled out of state to the mountains to see it. But unfortunately there was heavy cloud cover. I did see a few meteors on the way home though.
I've also gone to the mountains to see some of the comets. They are way cool. I have some pics of a few of them.
Sure but mostly only in the desert or camping away from city lights. . One big one I saw kept going and I thought for sure would hit the ground but it didn't as didn't hear anything about it. Must have been Supergirl. At least it wasn't the Big One.
I've seen lots of them. Most are tiny streaks high in the sky
One time, I was backpacking with two friends. We were high in the mountains near Yosemite. We made camp on the side of a large bowl-shaped area overlooking a lake. That night, we were sitting around a small fire talking. It was pitch dark. All of a sudden we were hit by a white light as bight as a spot light. We were initially startled and frightened. Everything as far as we could see was bathed in that white light. When we looked up, there was a meteor streaking across the sky, passing right over the lake. It was low, not high in the sky. It had a head like a comet and the tail was miles long. When it passed over a hill, we expected to see an explosion from it hitting the ground, but there never was one. We were absolutely dumbstruck. A while later, maybe 15 seconds or more, I don't know, we heard a thumping, rumbling sound like a train pulling box cars. It was the sound reaching us from the meteor ripping through the sky at supersonic speed.
Dozens and dozens of times. It's not especially rare - if you look up a the clear sky for any decent amount of time, there's a good chance you'll see them. Of course, if you are away from light pollution, your chances of seeing them go up, but I've seen them streak by when driving at night plenty of times.
But the coolest thing was one fall day, just after sunset but when the sky was still in twilight, a big chunk of a Russian rocket flew directly down my street at very low altitude, smoking and with pieces falling off, and moving surprisingly slowly. It was in the news as lots of people had seen it, but I had an amazing view - I'd guess it was well under 2000 feet of altitude when it flew over.
I think so when I was very young. I can't remember the last time one was mentioned and if it was, due to pollution its becoming increasingly difficult to see those things here in London. You really need the right conditions. I think I also got to watch and eclipse at some point. Unfortunately I don't really keep myself informed with these things so I wouldn't even be able to say. I think there was mention of the northern lights being more visible this year. But again you had to be on the northern hemisphere so somewhere like Scotland would have had better opportunity to see it.
Before i moved from Iraq, dark nights in hell of summer there, no power, just pure darkness, had fixed a camping bed on the roof top, saw so many shooting stars, not rockets. It's so magical, sp dark bit so delight. Once i was pn a trip to the north of Iraq, same thing, no power, pitch dark, and one day, it was so dark you could see the milky way, it was amazing, i still remember that
I purchased this Laptop from Amazon it was over $400 dollars and when I put it on my screen looked exactly like a shooting star the laptop was given off a burning odor so I turned it off and sent it back to Amazon got my refund and also the box it came in was damaged so when I saw this shooting star on here now I couldn't help to think what piece of garbage of a laptop I purchased.
yup actually 3 just yesteday evening. it's really easy to see them. if you want to, you are just right now in a time window, where you can get the last stragglers of the orionids, which is an annual meteor shower that passes earth. it's easy to find where you need to look, using the google skymap app on your phone.
of course if you live in a big city, that stuff can be tricky to see. cause light pollution pretty much hides the view of the stars.
Yes. Was looking out the window of my childhood bedroom one night and saw a meteor fly right by, probably 1/2 mile from my house, maybe 500 to 1000 ft altitude. It was small and hit the ground maybe 2 mi away. Someone called the police cuz there were sirens everywhere. Not sure if anyone ever knew what it was but I did. Lol
Yes. The Leonids are very common in August. You need to find a place where there's not much light though, which can be difficult if you live in or near a city.
Yes only once though. When I was younger and saw it I was just like oh cool then moved on. But now that I'm getting past my 20s it would be nice to take an hour or two and just star gaze.
One summer I saw so many of them. It was the summer of 1993. Since then, I'll see the random one when I'm out night fishing. I'd say that I average one or two a year.
It was probably a little meteorite, but could also have been some space junk that finally got pulled back down to Earth. There's TONS of space junk and it's getting to be a real problem for spacecraft/satellites, but some of it slows down enough to get drawn back to Earth by gravity.
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