Comments on: Next Meteor Shower – June Bootids

By: Meteor

Meteor — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:42:14 +0000

Gretchen,

I understand what you mean! Very cool.

- Meteor Mark

By: gretchen

gretchen — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:28:57 +0000

I must have seen what Keith did. I was in Eagle River, Wisconsin – and saw four of what I’d call “shooting stars” and then something that made me say “o my god” outloud, to myself! It was around midnight June 25/26. Right along the same path the sun had taken when it set hours earlier. A very bright burst with a very long, lingering tail.

Very cool!

By: GenCore

GenCore — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:33:11 +0000

GMT + 0 BTW

By: GenCore

GenCore — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:32:46 +0000

Just saw a massive comet or meteor burning through our atmosphere on the south coast of England at around 23:25 pm Saturday 26th June 2009.

By: Meteor

Meteor — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:24:34 +0000

Keith,

Thanks for the comment! You’re right, meteor showers are always best scene in the darkest morning skies! Remember this shower peaks 12:01 AM to Dawn on Saturday, not Saturday night into Sunday morning!

- Meteor Mark

By: keith

keith — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:50:48 +0000

just saw a great one in the northern suberbs of Detriot. Going up North Saturday so hopefully it will be much better with a no light sky for a background.

By: Meteor

Meteor — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:14:20 +0000

Mike,

No I didn’t. I haven’t heard any news about what you may have witnessed.

- Meteor Mark

By: M. MILLS

M. MILLS — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:06:36 +0000

Mark wondered if you received my question on 15 or so tiny pin point extremely bright flashes in 5 min period ?? my location 100w-31n . located in a 20degree area near zenith @5:15 am. TU. Thanks Mike

By: Meteor

Meteor — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:27:06 +0000

Alexis,

The darkest and safest place you can find!

- Meteor Mark

By: alexis

alexis — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:24:16 +0000

were do you go to look at the meteor showers in az mesa

By: Meteor

Meteor — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:21:07 +0000

Yesenia,

I do remember you! Thanks for coming back. In this blog post you responded in there is all the information that you need. People commonly mistake meteor showers to be night time events when in fact they are best seen in the morning, however I do believe that you may catch some meteors between June 26th before midnight and June 27th until dawn.

Meteor viewing is not an exact science, a person has to “be in the right place at the right time” and if you go out observing between midnight and dawn your chances are greater to see meteors by possibly being there in the “right time” and being in an area where the sky is not filled with man-made lights is the “right place”, hope this makes sense to you.

Take a look at the meteor shower viewing tips in the top right corner and let me know if you have any questions.

In the meantime, keep your head up!

- Meteor Mark

By: Yesenia

Yesenia — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:03:42 +0000

Hey Meteor Mark, i hope you remember me! i totally missed May 1st because i forgot to come back to this website =’( do you think there will be a major meteor shower visible to us who live in the eastern times and not so late than 5am?

By: Meteor

Meteor — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:54:16 +0000

Karen,

These may have been June Bootids meteors. Cygnus is high in the sky to the east for people in the northern hemisphere around the times you were viewing. So it is possible that these could be traced backward to our radiant Bootes…

Thanks for the comment!

- Meteor Mark

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:49:00 +0000

I saw about 10 last night between 11pm and midnight. About 6 or seven were in the area of Ursa major and Arcturus. 2 really impressive slower moving meteors streaked from east to west in the area of Cygnus.
very cool!

By: Meteor

Meteor — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:24:21 +0000

Try meteorblog.com I hear they have some good stuff.