Meteors to light up the sky Comments 0 Leonid meteor shower peaks this week November 14, 2010 8:24 AM By JESSICA CEJNAR, staff writer BARSTOW • Barstow residents who can brave the cold this week should find a dark spot Wednesday night and look up. The Leonid meteor shower reaches its peak late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning, offering stargazers a chance to see more than 15 meteors an hour. With a half-full moon setting after midnight, the best time to view the shower is just before dawn, according to NASA scientists. The Leonid meteors originated from the comet Tempel-Tuttle and in the past has attained the status of meteor storm, capable of producing hundreds of meteors an hour. Even though the shower peaks this week, it remains active until Nov. 28, according to NASA...... http://www.desertdispatch.com/news/sky-9684-barstow-light.htmlhttps://deepcreekhotsprings.net/dchs/forum/read.php?1,20197,20197#msg-20197Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:49:33 -0700 Phorum 5.2.10 https://deepcreekhotsprings.net/dchs/forum/read.php?1,20197,20209#msg-20209 https://deepcreekhotsprings.net/dchs/forum/read.php?1,20197,20209#msg-20209
Oh yeah... it's all coming back to me now. I can't even remember the last time I checked out the Deep Creek Forum. Looks like all the old familiar "faces" are still posting.

Come to think of it; I can't remember the last time was that I actually VISITED deep creek! Maybe 3 or 4 years ago.

But I was within a couple miles of the springs last month... flying overhead on my way to LAX in one of those big silver tubes with wings!

Maybe I'll make it back some day!]]> Gary Deep Creek Hot Springs, Apple Valley, CaliforniaWed, 17 Nov 2010 10:52:43 -0800 https://deepcreekhotsprings.net/dchs/forum/read.php?1,20197,20204#msg-20204 https://deepcreekhotsprings.net/dchs/forum/read.php?1,20197,20204#msg-20204
And right as I was going in for the evening I saw one last very unique one which I saw almost directly above me. It started with a sudden bright light that didn't go across the sky like usual but stayed in the same position getting brighter and brighter until it disintegrated in a bright greenish and orange flash. There was a small roundish clould very visible with the naked eye left behind. I looked at it with my binoculars immediately after the event and could see the remnants of this meteor burnout, and I could see the cloud drifting in the strong upper atmosphere winds which clearly showed it had come quite close. I realized that this meteor came out of space headed directly in my direction, a course of a meteor I have never witnessed before. Also the amount of meteors that night was said to be 60 to 100+ per hour according to the local newspaper. I watched them in the early morning hours by laying on a cot in our backyard in my sleeping bag to keep warm as it was a cooler time of year :-)]]> Wizard Deep Creek Hot Springs, Apple Valley, CaliforniaMon, 15 Nov 2010 19:27:44 -0800 https://deepcreekhotsprings.net/dchs/forum/read.php?1,20197,20201#msg-20201 https://deepcreekhotsprings.net/dchs/forum/read.php?1,20197,20201#msg-20201 jcrew Deep Creek Hot Springs, Apple Valley, CaliforniaMon, 15 Nov 2010 05:51:27 -0800 https://deepcreekhotsprings.net/dchs/forum/read.php?1,20197,20197#msg-20197 https://deepcreekhotsprings.net/dchs/forum/read.php?1,20197,20197#msg-20197Comments 0
Leonid meteor shower peaks this week
November 14, 2010 8:24 AM
By JESSICA CEJNAR, staff writer

BARSTOW • Barstow residents who can brave the cold this week should find a dark spot Wednesday night and look up.

The Leonid meteor shower reaches its peak late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning, offering stargazers a chance to see more than 15 meteors an hour. With a half-full moon setting after midnight, the best time to view the shower is just before dawn, according to NASA scientists.

The Leonid meteors originated from the comet Tempel-Tuttle and in the past has attained the status of meteor storm, capable of producing hundreds of meteors an hour. Even though the shower peaks this week, it remains active until Nov. 28, according to NASA......

http://www.desertdispatch.com/news/sky-9684-barstow-light.html]]> katrina island Deep Creek Hot Springs, Apple Valley, CaliforniaSun, 14 Nov 2010 10:57:39 -0800