h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Please use this forum to sign up for the Perseids Project.

We'll need your name and researcher number as well as the location from which you'll be observing. (please be as specific as possible with the location).

Thanks!

Lisa, U50758, Cheltenham - Gloucestershire, England - so I'll probably get the same as Nick.

How is U32373 also in Cheltenham (Charlton Kings to be exact [51.8830N, 2.0510W to be even more exact]). I'll be out there. Gets cold and lonley though, and cold.

I normally have sleeping bag, garden recumbant, thermos of coffee or soup, food! and many socks.

Hay if there are a number in any area a groupe observation could be organised. More accurate.
Nick

- I'll link this.

We will try and give it a shot. Aberdeen Beach, we will see what we can see, weather willing, and it is the brightest part of the sky, so maybe not much.....
BCNU - Crescent

I will try and see what I can come up with. I'll be located in Shropshire for the weekend (between Bridgenorth and Craven Arms - better details if I make some observations).

Phil

shazzPRME... user 48304.
I will be based in Alphen Aan Den Rijn, Holland, and will be equipped with sleeping bag, socks, and a few beers
Hopefully I will persuade TowelMaster to join me... if not, he will be spending a cold night in bed alone! LOL
The forecast looks good here... infact I am just about to go and take a sneak preview as the sky is clear and it is 11.30pm!
shazzPRME

Luckily, beeline is doing the map stuff for this project. But to make life easier for me, a poor Yank, can you guys be a bit more specific on your locations.

I'm guessing that Aberdeen Beach is in Scotland? And Shropshire is somewhere in England?

A little help here. I mean, throw me a freaking bone people.

Go to the following link, and enter in your location and it gives you the location of the town iv N/S E/W degrrees. Then put that in this forum.

http://www.heavens-above.com/

Well I was as acurate as I can be till I get there and see a map
I'll be going away with the canoe club and I'm not sure where the hostel is that we're going to, so if I manage to get you an observation then I'll include full details of location.
And you're right Aberdeen Beach is Scotland, Aberdeen at a guess, in the far NE of scotland, Shropshire is in the English/Welsh border.

Thanks Phil! A Yank that knows geography - how about that?!?

I'm pretty sure I can get a lat/long for anywhere on Earth with a name. And I'm in the UK so I know most of that. I'm pretty familiar with the good mapping sites on the Web as well - things like the Getty Geographical Thesaurus have literally everywhere. I challenge anyone! Muuwwwahahahahahah! *ahem*

It doesn't really matter if we don't get a location down to 1 second of arc - that's about 30 feet - it's not like we're measuring anything very scientifically anyway - just counting!

That's a good lot of researchers already - good work people. Oh, and I'll be out as well until I fall asleep.

30 feet, cool!

Why not do something scientific with the results? When on the page why not notify eyther a major meteor watch or and Nat Astro Society?

Of course I will take a look ! I'm an SF-fan right !?

And to add to Shazz' post :

Alphen aan den Rijn
The Netherlands
52.1330N
4.6670E

TM.

Dave McCreadie - 50416 - Inverkeithing/Fife/Scotland.
Count me in

Floh, 123888, Munich, Bavaria, Germany, 11.35 O, 48.1 N

Count me in with my slightly worse half, Worsley, Manchester, England, 53.509 -2.385

Just on top of the railway embankment, near the bonfire, left of the compost bin, close to the beer cans!!! Pestered by the cats

Sorry I forgot, U140245

We forgive you....LOL

Count me in!
Galaxy Babe...#U128652
watching from my back garden {the bomb-site} I can't lay on the grass {there isn't any now} so I will sit in a comfy chair, from 9pm... fingers crossed for a clear night!
um, my back garden is in Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, England.
Longitude 0 Degrees 2 minutes West
Latitude 53 Degrees 33 minutes North

*On the Grenwich Meridian Line even! {I bet you're all impressed} hehehe

*Happy Hunting!!!

Thanks everyone!!

You all are signed up on the results page. I'm going home to take a nap before sundown!

Good luck and clear skies!!

- X

CLEAR SKIES!!!! We have clear skies, well in Cheltenham at least. Slightly hazy.

----Expected maximum at 3 o'clock.----

Any budding astronomers head to http://www.h2g2.com/a413876


Nick

Bring on the meteors......