by iamlucky13 » Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:11 pm
ta152h0 wrote:someday the earth is going to fly thru the tail of this beast and I am watching
Unfortunately, nope. I don't remember where at the moment, I found an animation of it's trajectory. It is inclined about 70 degrees to the ecliptic plane, and it crosses from above to below the plane of earth's orbit less than a quarter of the earth's radius from the sun. Mercury might cross it, but we won't get to enjoy any kind of meteor show from this beast.
I tried to view it in the daylight on Friday and Saturday, when I first heard reports that other people had seen it. Unfortunately, there was quite a bit of haze around the sun from the icy air, so the sky was really bright. But, I did see it at sunset on Thursday. Very nice.
Most recommendations are to use the edge of a building to block the sun. It's a more definite and controllable boundary.
[quote="ta152h0"]someday the earth is going to fly thru the tail of this beast and I am watching :D[/quote]
Unfortunately, nope. I don't remember where at the moment, I found an animation of it's trajectory. It is inclined about 70 degrees to the ecliptic plane, and it crosses from above to below the plane of earth's orbit less than a quarter of the earth's radius from the sun. Mercury might cross it, but we won't get to enjoy any kind of meteor show from this beast.
I tried to view it in the daylight on Friday and Saturday, when I first heard reports that other people had seen it. Unfortunately, there was quite a bit of haze around the sun from the icy air, so the sky was really bright. But, I did see it at sunset on Thursday. Very nice.
Most recommendations are to use the edge of a building to block the sun. It's a more definite and controllable boundary.