<p>Did anyone see anything? I happened to be up the hills watching a play and I saw one spectacular shooting star, and then nada. Is it too light around here? Did anyone else have better luck?</p>
<p>The kids and I went out a couple times last night, but sadly it was too light and too cloudy (or perhaps smoggy 
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<p>I am located in Southern California and was lucky to see 4 shooting stars between 4:30 and 5 this morning…not quite the show I was expecting but was happy I at least saw a few!</p>
<p>I got my hopes up when I saw the one spectacular one during the play. My daughter and I sat out in the back yard after the play for awhile but all we saw was a possum. I might try looking again tonight, just in case, or maybe get up really early (fat chance, haha).</p>
<p>It got overcast here, so I gave up. Several years ago, I spent hours in the middle of a golf course at 2:00 am and saw maybe two or three shooting stars. I swore I would never do that again.</p>
<p>No. After massive amounts of July rain and now a massive heat wave, the only thing you gain from sitting outside around here is bat-sized mosquito bites and heat stroke.</p>
<p>My younger son was at a farewell party for friends from his former senior class last evening (in Los Altos) and claims to have had some good meteor sightings late last night. He had to rub it in, since I was planning to sit up to watch them after picking him up, but a friend drove him home about 1am and I was already asleep. I was thinking of trying again tonight, too.</p>
<p>From 11-12:30 last night we saw about half a dozen good ones from our backyard. Not as many as I’d hoped, but it was fun just stargazing with the kids–I’d do it every night. Added treats: large bat flew into a bush and scared everyone, and two of my Ds who’d fallen asleep on the deck got a rude awakening when the sprinkler system came on. . .</p>
<p>Aggh…I so missed it! when was it at EST?</p>
<p>I saw two in about a 30 minute time frame around 11 pm. I had planned on looking again when my son came in but fell asleep and didn’t wake till this morning. My son’s friend said they saw 4 in about 30 minutes around 2 am. We live in a semi rural area so it was pretty dark.</p>
<p>I saw a few on Saturday night and more last night when viewing from the East Chop lighthouse on Martha’s Vineyard. What a location…It was wonderful (inspite of the many mosquito bites I acquired).</p>
<p>D convinced us to let her and best friend (a guy - like another brother to her) stay out all night at a park nearby but away from at least local light pollution. Friend’s mom called the local police and they said they wouldn’t turn the kids out of the park as long as nothing was going on - and I’m sure they checked after having been alerted! She and I text messaged back and forth a few times (new one for me - texting from bed!). She said it was pretty good around 3 or 4 but tapered off quickly after that. She fell alseep and came home around 6:30.<br>
I know this sounds like a ruse for a party, but she came home smelling of nothing but bug spray. At this point you just have to trust them - she leaves for college in 2 days…</p>
<p>I saw 3 in the course of 30 minutes around 1030pm last night-SF-East Bay</p>
<p>Why do they always schedule these meteor showers for the middle of the night?</p>
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<p>Between 1 & 2 am we saw four or five “shooting stars” from our backyard. The light pollution here is awful, which diminished the effect, plus we had to look through tree branches. Next year we’ll have it better orchestrated–somewhere out in the open country where a billion street lights, etc., don’t turn the midnight sky into a muddy grey.</p>
<p>I’m going to walk the dog right now, and I expect to see some FIREWORKS!</p>
<p>Seriously though, when is the show on the east coast?</p>
<p>Here in NY we saw 2 last night between midnight and 1AM. The clouds and the lights made it rough so we gave up after that. It was cool though.</p>
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<p>haha! u know they don’t schedule anything right? :D</p>
<p>We have watched the Perseids every year since my elder son was 5 and got interested in space and such. When the boys were still at home, we would all go out at night and lie on a big blanket, watching the skies. The boys would always get silly, and we had a fun time. We referred to airplanes as “slow moving meteors,” and bugs that flew past were “dark meteors.” Even in high school, the boys enjoyed this August ritual.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, it was overcast last night, so dh and I weren’t able to see anything. :(</p>
<p>I saw one last night the minute I turned out the light in our hot tub. Then nothing.</p>