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Leonid Meteor Shower Observation Tips

Posted by Hemos on from the watch-the-skys dept.

mao che minh writes "For those of us around the world planning on stepping out and witnessing the Leonid meteor showers next week (November 19th), NASA is running an article that will help you maximize your meteor shower viewing enjoyment, straight from the experts' mouths."

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  1. time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So the europeans should just get up 4:00 UT.
    WTF is ut. Somebody give me the CET time.

  2. Again? by kitsook · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is it going to be another meteor shower in a scale that we are "not going to see for several hundred years"?

  3. Re:Light Pollution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful
    which doesn't purport to show the 'wasted' light
    But it does show the wasted light. It's pretty easy to see that if you can see some light from Earth from space, it's being wasted. Unless your town provides streetlights for the express purpose of informing NASA how large it is?
  4. Re:Light Pollution by GigsVT · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, but the light is pretty useless unless it bounces off something, and into your eye. It's also going to bounce upward too. Unless you plan on building huge mirrors over every lighted highway, there is always going to be a lot of "waste"

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