shooting starts

[IreneMendez (Irene)]

Hello everyone
Tonight is going to be a shooting start night, and I was wondering where could be the best place close to gold coast to see it.
I was thinking in mt tamborine, but my friends said that its a bit dangerous to drive at night time for that road.
Can someone suggest any place?

Thank you so much

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

Hi Irene and welcome!

Tonight's meteor shower is best suited for people in the northern hemisphere. if you are taking a look though you would probably best to take a look around 4am.

a lot more information is below:
http://astroblogger.blogspot.com.au/

The eta aquarids meteor shower is in about 2 weeks which will be better suited to view.

Also something else you may be interested in seeing is the partial solar eclipse on Tuesday .. more info here http://astroblogger.blogspot.com.au/...l-29-2014.html

Cheers,

Rusty

[LewisM]

About 0230 this morning after dropping off a friend from picking her up at the airport, I saw one of the better persistent tail meteors I have ever seen (and this was on a partially cloudy night).

[Baddad (Marty)]

You mentioned partially cloudy night. Blah! I agree. I checked at 1:45 AM and again 3:30 AM. So disappointing. and that moon was there.

Bed was next option.

Looking forward to 2 weeks.

Cheers